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NADH late-night attendance remains weak
After 2 a.m., the number of
patrons per hour at NADH
drops quickly. To the right is a
breakdown of when students
visited it during a representative day each month while it
offered 24-hour service. GT
Dining did not collect data in
December and did not offer
24-hour service in January.

SEPTEMBER

46

2 a.m. to 3 a.m.

OCTOBER

3 a.m. to 4 a.m.

63

NOVEMBER
FEBRUARY
0

10

4 a.m. to 5 a.m.

70

5 a.m. to 6 a.m.

68
20

30

40

50

60

70

6 a.m. to 7 a.m.
80

Number of patrons at NADH
Infographic by Lisa Xia / Student Publications

By Sam Somani
Staff Writer

Despite the reinstatement of
24-hour service and hot breakfast at North Avenue Dining Hall
(NADH) earlier this semester,
student traffic between 3 a.m. and
7 a.m. at NADH remains weak.
“We are seeing a little more
activity from the 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.
time period, but after 3 a.m., there
are many 30-minute windows
where there are no students coming in,” said Dori Martin, marketing director for Dining. “We have
a facility open, food out, staff
present and no customers.”

This poses a challenge for the
longevity of 24-hour service at the
location. During most business
hours, an average of 30 people
enter NADH every 15 minutes.
However, between the hours of
2 a.m. to 7 a.m., fewer than five
students enter the facility during
each 15-minute interval.
“We want to be sustainable as
well and utilize our resources and
put them where people are actually using them,” said Staci Flores,
general manager for Dining.
The reinstatement has been
prolonged to the end of this semester as sort of goodwill to the
community, according to Martin.

“Reinstating is not a permanent decision, in the sense that the
numbers aren’t speaking to what
the students want,” said Eran
Mordel, SGA Vice President of
Campus Affairs. “The administrators will look at this again.”
At the beginning of this semester, Dining removed hot breakfast
from the menu at NADH and
cut its hours between 2 a.m. and
7 a.m. This provoked a reaction
from students who felt that they
were no longer receiving the services they had paid for at the beginning of the year.
“We didn’t have enough time
to communicate it properly be-

cause of that December break,”
Flores said. “We wanted to open
back up and be transparent and
communicate to students saying,
‘There is low participation and for
us to continue this program that
everybody says they would like,
we need you to use it.’”
According to Dining, the closure of the aforementioned services at NADH allowed them to
reallocate resources to other projects and services.
“When we did close during
that time period, all of that food
that was under-utilized was food
dollars that we could put towards
the lunch and dinner programs,”

Martin said. “So, you were seeing a lot more interesting, creative
and more proteins, on the menu
because we are better able to afford those things when we better
utilize our food dollars.”
The closure allowed for efficient allocation of staffing time.
“We also redistributed labor
at Brittain and NADH so they
opened up an additional breakfast
line,” Flores said.
Following the outcry, Dining
agreed to reinstate the cancelled
services at NADH. The data that
Dining acquires this semester will
See Dining, page 7

As the Republican presidential nomination race hurtles towards its ten-state Super
Tuesday contest on March 6,
the four remaining candidates
have each staked out positions

regarding higher education, as
well as science and technology.
Concerns about a growing national debt and suspicion of
college-educated elites have
colored each candidate’s rhetoric as their public statements
have drifted rightward since
the beginning of the cam-

paign.
Higher education has come
up in the campaign partly as a
proxy punching bag for those
whom the GOP candidates
believe are “elite,” including
President Barack Obama, and
partly as an example of federal
overspending.

Most recently, Rick Santorum raised eyebrows when
he called Obama a “snob” for
what Santorum said on Meet
the Press were Obama’s calls
for all Americans to attend college and be remade in Obama’s

Newt Gingrich represented Georgia in the House
of Representatives for twenty
years, four of which he served
as Speaker. He is credited
with unifying and molding
the modern Republican Party during his tenure, which
was marked by a refusal to
compromise and a tight fiscal policy. Despite shutting
down the government for
weeks, his Congress passed
a balanced budget under the
Clinton administration in
the late 1990s.

Ron Paul

Ron Paul, currently serving Texas in the House of
Representatives, is a staunch
libertarian, garnering a consistent minority vote on the
GOP ticket. He proposes a
deconstructivist
domestic
policy coupled with an isolationist foreign policy, placing him at odds with many
mainstream voters. Paul
draws most of his support
from the younger end of the
conservative electorate, who
often state that he receives
too little media coverage.

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney has held
positions in both business
and politics, serving as CEO
of Bain & Company and
Governor of Massachusetts.
He is the most moderate of
the candidates and is thus
considered most electable by
many voters. His significant
wealth and aloof persona
have at times distanced him
from less well-off voters. He
remains the most successful in terms of delegates and
many believe he is the most
likely to win the nomination.

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum is a former
senator from Pennsylvania
who has crafted a presidential
campaign from a resolutely
conservative social ideology.
He argues for the presence of
government in determining
social values and promotes
conservative Christian positions on marriage and reproductive health. His persistent
and rigorous campaigning
ethic has given him a recent
sweep of success and made
him the second most successful candidate.

conceal carry
license debate
By Jordan Lockwood
Staff Writer

Students gathered on Feb. 23 for an open
forum to share student perspectives regarding the proposed Georgia House Bill 981.
HB 981 would allow the concealed carry
of a firearm on all educational campuses in
Georgia, except for private institutions that
choose to maintain their restrictions. Should
the bill pass, Tech would not be able to opt
out of the requirement to allow concealed
carry on its campus.
The College Republicans, GT Marksmanship Club and Students for Concealed
Carry sponsored the forum. The moderator
for the discussion was David Wilkes, vice
president of the Marksmanship Club. Some
students in attendance felt that this onesided sponsorship contributed to the heavily
biased nature of the debate.
“I thought that if they had reached out
directly to more organizations, a more balanced debate could have been had,” said
John Koch, president of the College Democrats of Georgia and a fifth-year HTS major.
“I look forward to trying to work with them
to have a more fair discussion of the issues.”
“It was a bit disappointing that more
people who are against it didn’t come out
to let their thoughts be known,” said Andrés Celedón, chairman of the Georgia Tech
College Republicans and a third-year PUBP
major.
Many students at the debate spoke in favor
See Debate, page 5

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In the early morning of Friday,
Feb. 17, officers on bike patrol noticed four students climbing the
roof of the Student Center. The
officer contacted the students and
noticed that one of them had a
“Blue Moon” beer bottle in hand.
One student, who was underage,
still had a half empty beer bottle;
all four had flushed faces and
red, bloodshot eyes. When questioned, they admitted they had
been drinking. They had decided
to access the roof of the Student
Center to smoke cigarettes after
partying at their respective fraternity houses. Paramedics were
called for one of the students and
the other three were informed that
they were free to leave. The officer
suggested someone stay with the
fourth student until his examination was finished. None of the
three wished to stay and left the
scene without further incident.
The Norm

Officers were dispatched on
the morning of Feb. 15 to Howey
Physics building. A professor informed the officer that around 5
p.m. the day before, a commotion
was heard in the hallway, which
was unusual since it was the end
of a business day. He went to investigate and heard the sound of
glass being broken. When he ar-

rived at the main door entrance,
he recognized a student standing
on the opposite side of the shattered door looking dazed. When
questioned, the student admitted
to shattering the glass. The professor then asked the student to come
into his office to talk. The student
explained that he was under a lot
of pressure and depressed over his
studies. The professor contacted
the counseling center and the
Dean of Students to make them
aware of the student’s situation.
Wannabes

A call was placed on Feb. 18
concerning four males in the
North Avenue Apartment recreation center who were not students. When officers arrived at the
apartments, the officers observed
the four playing basketball. When
questioned, all admitted that they
were not students at Tech. Three
suspects could produce valid
identification, while the fourth
provided only a verbal name and
date of birth. When checked, this
information provided no results,
and the suspect confessed that he
had given a false name. He then
provided his real name and explained that he had not given his
real name because he thought he
was wanted for failure to pay a
super speeder ticket. The suspect
was released and given a warning

On Monday, Feb. 20, at 2 p.m.,
officers arrived at the intersection
of Tenth Street and Fowler Street
in reference to a mentally ill person. Officers met a female who,
when questioned, gave officers a
blank stare. When officers offered
to get her some water, she responded, “She would like some water,”
but refused to drink it. She never
stated that she wanted to hurt herself or another person, had committed criminal acts, or was off
her medication. At 3:30 p.m., the
officer observed the same woman
yelling “Jesus” at the intersection
of Center Street and Tenth Street.
She was still unresponsive to help,
but was eventually convinced to
get into the police car. She was
taken to the Atlanta Union Mission for Women, which refused to
accept her because of her mental
state. The women was then voluntarily taken to Grady Hospital to
be evaluated.
Are you lost, ma’am?

On Feb. 17 at 2:30 a.m., an
officer observed a female walking
around the fourth floor of the GT
Library. The female had been seen
earlier that evening and did not
appear to be a student due to her
age and condition of her clothes.
When officers asked to see her
Tech ID card, she stated that she
had lost it. Her name was run
through the police database, and
it was discovered that she had an
outstanding warrant. She was taken into custody and transported
to Fulton County Jail.

NEWS

Council Clippings

Breaking

This week in Student Government

E

ach Tuesday, elected members of the two houses of the Student Government Association, the
Undergraduate House of Representatives (UHR) and the Graduate Student Senate (GSS), convene to
consider allocation bills and discuss issues facing campus. Here is a summary of those two meetings.

Funding for the fourteenth
annual Tech Beautification Day
(TBD) came under close scrutiny
this past week during consideration by the GSS.
The initial versions passed by
each house were different and had
to be reconciled in a conference
committee before this week.
The bill was ultimately passed
due to support from UHR, which
overrode the GSS vote by exceeding the enactment ratio needed for
the funds to be awarded. The primary reason for opposition in GSS
was the fact that funds awarded to
TBD would be used for projects
that would improve Greek properties on campus, which are technically not considered to be Institute property.
“Greek students have shown
their commitment to improving
campus year after year. However,
the Senate was extremely uncomfortable with using student activ-

UHR
42-0-0
PASS
49-0-1
50-0-1
47-0-3
--49-0-0
--47-0-0

ity fee revenue to improve private
property, and with the precedent
that would [be] set,” wrote CE
Sen. Aaron Greenwood, who
served on the conference committee between the House and Senate, in an e-mail.
Greenwood went on to say that
he was against funding the cleanup of all private property, not just
Greek houses.
“We made very clear that it
didn’t matter who owned the
property (Greek letter organizations, religious groups or even
citizens outside the Tech community), we did not feel that improvements funded through the SAF
were appropriate,” Greenwood
wrote. “We’re certainly grateful
for all of the Greek involvement
in TBD, but we’re not comfortable with funding improvements
to private property owners.”
However, UHR still chose to
fund the bill with a near unanimous vote of 47-0-3.

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Rapunzel whips her hair back and forth.
Tangled is a very delightful movie.
looking for a cute asain girl -_Ever notice that Vonage now features Indians in all of their advertisements for cheap international phone service. There’s a joke
there somewhere, but I just cannot nail it down...
The DOP from RHA rocked Comedy @ Tech
Really NAA Dining? 2 meat sauces for the pasta... when the
clock strikes midnight vegetarians be damned!
i am indeed the boss
please, Sliver King, tell your readers to come watch volleyball!
Dear sophomore arch student, no one in the lab want to hear
your music blasting... its 2am --your older arch friend
can you add a print button for the online technique articles?
thanks
Just walked past a guy looking at porn on his phone. In the Culc.
What the heck?! Keep that stuff private!
SOC 1101 makes me dumber...
Girl on the elevator who couldn’t remember what floor you lived
on, I hope you remembered what room you lived in.
Letters to the editor submission tool is broken :(
Sometimes I wish that slivers had a “like” button...
Babe-raham Lincoln
Community Returns
Six Seasons and A Movie
Vehement DANGIT! exclaimer, thank you for the entertainment.
Hey cutie in my ME 4210 class, wanna go to formal with me this
weekend?
Next time, we’ll try not to make sandwiches while you’re in class.
for all of you trying to find girls at Tech, we are hosting a volleyball tournament on Saturday!
love having a coffee place in the CULC now. too bad I gained a
lot of wait and lost a lot of money cus of that starbucks....
got caught making out in library and they just apologized and
left so we kept making out

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“The reason the graduate students were against this was because it was an improvement to
private property, but this property
is located on Tech property, so the
representatives in the committee
felt that these projects actually
served the best of our students’
interests,” said Sophomore Rep.
Nicholas Picon.
CS Rep. Daniel Farmer spoke
against the bill during the UHR
meeting. He agreed with the graduates.
“I was against it initially because the student activity fee was
going to one part of campus, especially when there was none for
other organizations such as CCF,”
Farmer said.
T-SPLOST

A new resolution was brought
up in open forum of UHR supporting the new Transportation
Investment Act. This act, also
known as T-SPLOST, will seek
to improve the transportation
of metro Atlanta through its Atlanta Streetcar line, as well as the
Atlanta Beltline Project by implementing a transportation special
local one-percent sales tax (TSPLOST).
“I think it lines up with every
initiative that Tech pushes,” said
Eran Mordel, SGA Vice President
of Campus Affairs, citing the positive effects to campus safety, accessibility to Tech, the aesthetics,
less congestion and sustainability
in the nearby area.
The resolution will be in old
business for next week’s meeting,
when a vote on the measure could
be held.

Bubble
the

U.S. plumbing bill:
$1 trillion
According to a study by the
American Water Works Association, the U.S. may need to
spend $1 trillion over the next
25 years to improve plumbing infrastructure. The grid of
pipes created in the late 19th
century and throughout the
20th century is approaching
the end of its life span. These
pipes are responsible for carrying drinking water throughout cities, which are decaying
rapidly. The payment for these
repairs, however, may not come
from taxes but directly from
household water bills.
—The Huffington Post

N. Korea Agrees
to Drop Nuclear
Activities
North Korea has agreed to
a suspension of its nuclear and
long-range missile tests after
discussions with the U.S. This
will allow the International
Atomic Energy Inspectors to
carefully monitor the activities of all nuclear plants and to
confirm the shutdown of their
nuclear reactor in the city of
Yongbyon.
“These are concrete measures that we consider a positive first step toward complete
and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula
in a peaceful manner,” White

House spokesman Jay Carney
said.
In exchange, the U.S. has
promised to meet North Korea’s nutritional needs, offering them 240,000 metric tons
of food aid in return, and more
if needed. The U.S. halted
food aid in 2009, when talks
about nuclear disarmament
fell through. If the agreement
moves forward, this would be
considered a significant policy
shift by North Korean leader
Kim Jung-un, who took over
from his father late last year.
— Reuters

Automobile Rearview
Cameras Mandated
by 2014
The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration
is planning to propose a new
bill to Congress that would require the installation of rearview cameras in all new cars
beginning 2014. The mandate
could result in over $2.7 billion of total extra installation
costs for automakers each year.
“Safety is the number one
priority at the Department of
Transportation — and we give
especially high priority to the
safety of children. While the
department has made progress
toward a final rule to improve
rearward visibility, it has decided that further study and
data analysis — including of
a wider range of vehicles and
drivers — is important to ensure the most protective and
efficient rule possible,” the
NHTSA said in a statement.
Each year, 17,000 people
are involved in an accident due
to a reversing vehicle, including 228 deaths, according to
the New York Times.
— The Los Angeles Times

NEWS

Tech facilities seek LEED seals
By Lauren Brett
Contributing Writer

As the emphasis on green technology has continued to increase
over the past few years, Tech has
become home to more LEED
(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified
buildings. LEED is a certification
that can be awarded to buildings
that meet certain requirements
established by the U.S. Green
Building Council (USGBC). This
certification verifies that a building was designed and built using
environmentally friendly strategies.
Tech has increased efforts to
receive LEED certification in
recent years and now has a total
of seven LEED-certified campus
buildings spanning classrooms,
offices, athletics and residential buildings, with “six or eight
projects in the works” according
to Howard Wertheimer, Tech’s
director of Capital Planning and
Space Management.
LEED certification comes at
specific levels, Platinum and Gold
being the two highest. Current
policy states Tech’s new construction and renovations will also be
designed and constructed to be
LEED Gold certified or higher, as
of 2009.
However, this lofty award
comes at a price. As a state institution, Tech does not receive a tax
break or other financial assistance
for these projects, and up-front
costs for the technology needed
to qualify as any kind of LEED
certified building, especially Gold
or Platinum, can be high. “The
cost is in the plaque recognition”,
Wertheimer said.
Buildings constructed and renovated to meet LEED standards
often help to pay for themselves,
as they help to reduce energy con-

Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications

A LEED Gold seal hangs in the North Avenue Apartments. LEED
certification is a signal of environmental sustainability benefits.
sumption and reduce the cost of
utility bills. According to Tech’s
Office of Environmental Stewardship, the sustainable technologies
in place result in an 11 percent
reduction in energy consumption,
resulting in $7 million in savings.
Motivation for this certification is fairly obvious. “As a
university, we own and operate
these buildings forever…so the
initial up-front cost is pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of
things,” Wertheimer said. “Most
of the time, our return on our
investments is in less than seven
years.”
“We can take those savings…
and reinvest them,” Wertheimer
said, “[having technologies like]
lights that go off when people
leave rooms… and continuing to
add controls to make things for
automated… further reduce our
carbon footprint and energy consumption.”
“The focus is on doing the
right thing… designing everything in the most sustainable and
appropriately economical way that
we can,” Wertheimer said.

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Ukrainian black metal is my anti-drug
If I don’t get an explanation for why fire was shooting out of that
building... You guys saw that too right???
It was like a flamethrower going straight up
It’s ok to publish that thing I said about Barbo, he doesn’t know
we call him that
pair a, pair a, pair a dice, bankrupt when she rolled snake eyes.
things you hear in analysis: i have finitely many balls
i always go the extra mile to avoid doing things
She said yes!
Swoldiers get swole.
I’m on the HH train!! Choo Choo!
Apparently, rolling the dice is not a good way to “find the derivative” :/
AE 3515 sucks... like seriously...
2 pizzas and a 2 liter for under 10 bucks? #couponwin
OMG...taxes -__neeeeeeeeddddd slllllleeeeeeepp pppppp......
The RHA Auditor is so awesome
Hashtags are *not* ok for slivers
To the girl who asked if you could FedEx things from the GT
post office, I hope you eventually see the irony in your question
true love: the willingness of one person to share his/her Girl Scout
cookies with another
Space planning hates students.
hi chris
PINEAPPLE FLAVORED RUM EXISTS... BEST NEWS
EVER
As a biker, I’m not going to hit you. Calm down.
The picture of the guy staring at a painting at the art crawl is
hilarious
Tech, I’m a ECE PhD student who’s never come within a hundred yards of a Women’s Studies class, and I’m starting to think
I’m in the top five campus feminists. Y’all need to step up your
game.
ALL NIGHT LOOOONG!

With emphasis on green and
sustainable design only increasing
in society, Wertheimer is aware of
the impact LEED-certified facilities could have on students making their college decisions.
“[LEED certification] is something potential student’s would
look at when considering Tech,”
he said.
Tech’s five million square feet
of sustainable buildings have already received significant media
attention with regards to its work
towards environmentally friendly
and efficient facilities. The Princeton Review named Tech as one
of the “Greenest Colleges in the
U.S.,” placing it and 17 other
schools on its 2010 Green Rating
Honor Roll for maintaining the
most sustainable practices, policies and course offerings among
all campuses rated for their environmental friendliness. Tech also
received recognition on Forbes.
com on their list of “America’s
Greenest Colleges in Universities”
in 2010.
See LEED, page 7

Technique • March 2, 2012 • 5

Debate

from page 1

of the proposed legislation, saying
it would be a positive change for
overall safety on campus and the
surrounding area..
“I have been waiting for a bill
like this for a very long time. I believe that the constitutions of our
state and country afford me the
right to keep and bear my arms,”
said Stuart Michelson, CS grad
student.
Other students in favor of the
legislation cited the dangerous
areas surrounding campus (including Home Park and English
Avenue), the inconvenience of
not having their weapons on their
person and the unfairness of being
unarmed given that criminals do
not obey concealed carry restriction as reasons to allow concealed
carry on campus.
A few students, however, were
vocal in their opposition to the
legislation. Many of them said
that relaxed gun restrictions
for young, stressed and densely
packed college students would be
a recipe for trouble.
“The College Democrats at GT
believe that HB 981 would create
an environment detrimental to

the Institute’s academic mission
and would pose serious safety issues for the average Tech student,”
Koch said.
Those students opposing HB
981 are not alone. Both Chief of
GTPD Teresa Crocker and Institute President G.P. “Bud” Peterson have voiced concerns about
allowing concealed carry on campus in the past. No representatives
of the police department or of the
President’s office attended the debate.
HB 981 also allows concealed
carry in places of worship, state
mental hospitals, polling places,
bars, school zones and government buildings.
Citizens involuntarily committed to mental health hospitals or
drug or alcohol rehabilitation centers may not receive a concealed
carry license within five years of
discharge, unless allowed by a
probate judge.
The bill also removes the governor’s right to remove firearm
rights in an official state of emergency, allows the use of silencers
for hunting purposes and requires
the return of confiscated firearms
to their acquitted owners following legal trials.

Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications

Students gather to speak during the conceal carry debate. A bill
before the Georgia Assembly would allow guns on campus.

NEWS

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY RESULTS

Technique • March 2, 2012 • 7

Colorado Caucus
Date: Feb. 7, 2012
Winner: Rick Santorum
Percent of vote: 40.3
Santorum’s first outright win
after the drawn-out Iowa caucuses injected his then-flagging
campaign with new momentum.
His victory in Colorado was
joined by simultaneous victories
in the Minnesota Caucuses and
the non-binding Mississippi primary.

Michigan Primary
Date: Feb. 27, 2012
Winner: Mitt Romney
Percent of vote: 41.1
Fending off a resurgent Santorum, Romney took his boyhood
home of Michigan in a hardfought battle. Despite several
gaffes highlighting his wealth,
the former Massachusetts governor proved to some pundits that
he is still able to connect with
conservative voters.

Infographic by Ian Bailie / Student Publications

Election

from page 1

image. In later statements, Santorum clarified, saying he takes issue with what he believes is the
liberal tilt and political correctness of college campuses, not the
act of going to college itself.
Ron Paul has called for the
complete elimination of the Department of Education and for

the government to get out of the
student loan business, although
he says he would not immediately
end student loan programs. He is
against any federal assistance for
universities, believing that state
and local government should
handle them.
Each of the GOP candidates
have called for lower federal
spending, claiming that one of

the reasons the country has not
fully recovered from the 2008
crash is decreased investor confidence due to unsustainable government spending. Few, however,
have addressed funding of science
and technology head-on.
Gingrich, known for his selfdescribed “grandiose” ideas, famously claimed he would work
to establish a base on the Moon

by 2020, funded through private
investment. He has also called for
more funding for the National
Science Foundation.
Romney has called for an increase in the number of H-1B
visas, which bring in high-skilled
workers from outside the country.
Those new immigrants would be
able to work in the science and
technology fields.

Dining

from page 1

be made available to students before any changes are made regarding future service offerings.
“What we’re doing at North
Ave. every week is letting students
know, on our plasma screens in
fact, ‘Hey look, this is how much
the participation was each day
from a four-hour time period at
North Avenue’ and kind of inviting them,” Martin said.
Individual components of the
plan, however, were attacked.
“Regarding hot breakfast, it
needs to be consistent,” Mordel
said. “If they are providing it at
Brittain and Woodruff, then this
option need to be consistent across
the board too. No qualms there.”

LEED

from page 5

The Clough Undergraduate
Learning Commons (CULC), one
of the several projects in the process of receiving certification, is
aiming for LEED Platinum standing. If accomplished it will make
the CULC the largest LEED
Platinum university building in
the country. Tech has worked to
make the CULC more sustainable, equipping it with solar panels and an underground cistern.
This prevents it from having to use
potable city water, which, according to Wertheimer, “saves 6500
gallons of water per day.”
“It’s not just about LEED. I
think that it is a very good benchmark…but at the end of the day
it’s about doing the right thing
and being good stewards of our
environment,” Wertheimer said.

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OUR VIEWS | Consensus Opinion

Late night dining

Nighttime food options severely lacking on campus

With GT Dining looking at
discontinuing late-night dining and hot
breakfast at the North Avenue Dining Hall
(NADH) in Fall 2012, dining on campus
needs to be reevaluated with an eye toward
what students really need.
Students ultimately need food options
late at night. If it’s not financially viable,
getting rid of the NADH’s late night option
is perfectly understandable. However, that
leaves Tech students to fend for themselves
for late-night food. If Tech has a library
that’s open for 24 hours and classes that
require students to use it, there should be
somewhere students can go to get some kind
of food after normal dining hours. Such an
option would not need to be comprehensive;
expanding the food selection at Starbucks
or replacing Jazzman’s with a Buzz-By graband-go would be more than sufficient. Since
students in housing presumably have their
own food for those hours, options in the
center of campus would make more sense,
so people working late could get something
more than a candy bar.

It is important to keep in mind that GT
Dining has complete control over students’
late-night options. Many of the options
students used to have for late-night meals
— like Quizno’s and Wingnuts — are no
longer nearby, and the only option is Waffle
House, which is not close enough to the
center of campus to make it good for a
quick bite.
Dining should also reevaluate the value
of the options it offers campus. Specifically,
if it gets rid of the hot breakfast options at
NADH, aspects of the pricing and quality
scheme need to be modified. As it is, the
cold breakfast it offers costs the same as
a hot breakfast elsewhere on campus,
which makes little sense, considering the
high cost relative to the value of the meal.
While Sodexo is an outside contractor, its
overall performance and quality reflect on
the Institute, both in terms of recruiting
and the well-being of current students.
Therefore, Dining should insist that Sodexo
maintain a wide variety of options at a high
level of quality.

The Consensus Opinion reflects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the
Technique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors.

“‘Community of sisterhood is
powerful...the gathering of
women in solidarity leads to the
development of their voices.’”
Julia Turner

Chair, Women’s Awareness Month Committee

Women’s Awareness Month
started as a week of women’s programs in 1997 and grew to a full
month in 2000. For 12 years,
WAM has been highlighting
women’s empowerment, focusing
on issues like heart health (the
number one killer of women in
the U.S.), sexual violence, gender
stereotypes and much more.
Back in September, the WAM
executive committee went on a retreat to figure out how we wanted
to shape this year’s month. In discussions and brainstorming sessions for the theme, we kept coming back to what had called us to
participate in WAM: the women
we met. The staff at the WRC,
the other women volunteers, the
women from the various event
committees — these connections
were what got us excited about
WAM and the events held during
the month. We were able to step
out of the “woman” box, but we
were only able to step out together.
Arriving at this conclusion,
we found the following quotation
to assert what we were all thinking: “Community of sisterhood is
powerful...the gathering of women in solidarity leads to the development of their voices, their skills
and knowledge. Unfettered by expectations of submissiveness, surrounded by peers, a woman can
say what she needs, share what
she knows, ask for credit where
it is due, learn her rights…She
rises above the noise and discovers her presence, her gravity, her
wisdom.”
From this expression of the
power of female community, we
came to the theme “Together We
Rise above the Noise.” We wanted
to emphasize the community that
WAM creates, not only during the
month, but also for Tech women
in general, at all times. Our advisor, Melanie DeMaeyer, summed
it up by saying, “We feel it captures all that women in our community face each day and that it
speaks to the power that resides
in community of women. We are
proud to be a part of developing
our own community of women
and hope that as you attend our
programs this year that, you too,
will be proud of our community and be inspired to continue
to nourish and advocate for it
throughout your time at Tech.”
On Tuesday, as a preview event
for WAM and as a program for
Body Image week, we screened
Miss Representation, a documentary about women in the media…
and about how women are not in
the media. The film highlights
some of the “noise” we thought of
when coming up with our theme
for this year. The constant deluge

of images that promote women
as objects rather than humans, as
only valued for their bodies and
not their minds.
At WDS we bring together
women for a day of service, in
what, I think, begins to address
some of the issues raised by the
Miss Representation video. In a
small way, WDS begins to show
us how we can change the world,
one project at a time — and more
importantly, how we can change it
together, as a sisterhood.
Clothesline, a new event this
year, supports women who have
been affected by violence. The
symbolic support of the line, the
shirts hanging shoulder to shoulder — a visual representation of
the community WAM upholds.
In a similar way, Take Back
the Night provides a safe space for
victims of sexual abuse to reclaim
some of their power. One of the
most powerful effects of the space
TBtN creates is that it encourages women who have not spoken
about their rapes to speak out as
well. By having the audience participate in a candlelight vigil, we
provide a community of support
for those who share their stories.
I like that we’re ending the
month with the Red Dress Fashion Show this year. Not only
does the event raise money for a
charitable organization geared toward women’s heart health, it also
brings women from diverse areas
of campus together to support a
common health issue — one that
is also a major problem for men.
WAM has always been about
creating a safe community for
women on campus. As a collective
of powerful women, we want to
step above the noise created by the
media, popular culture, societal
gender norms and stereotypes. We
hope that at month’s end, members of the Tech community come
away with a better understanding
of the issues we are raising, and
more importantly, the reasons
why we are raising them.

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Layers of procrastination escape undergrads
Greetings, friends.
As a grad student, I consider
procrastination to be an area
I excel in. In fact, given that I
can’t really remember what I’m
here studying—given the number rats I see here, I assume it is
somewhere in the field of biology, though I wouldn’t swear
by it—I would go so far as to
call it my area of expertise.
So, when I hear you adorable undergrads talking about
how much you procrastinate,
I can’t help but smile at your
naivete. While I have no doubt
that some of you spend more
time on Facebook than you
should, you clearly don’t understand the subtle shades of
procrastination in the same
way I do.
As a general thought exercise, I like to compare each different flavor of procrastination
to a different level in Dante’s
Hell. The metaphor is really
quite apt: a depressing spiral,
where the deeper you go, the
worse and more vile the offences you encounter.
The occupants of the first
ring of Procrastination Hell
can, at some level, be considered productive, much in the
same way that the residents of
Limbo aren’t necessarily evil.
At this level, procrastination
is avoiding one assignment by
doing another. It’s answering
emails. It’s procrasticleaning.
At the end of the day, some-

thing useful is done. While
you occasionally see hardcore
procrastinators here on a rare
guilt-trip to the land of productivity, Procrastination Hell’s
main resident is the freshman
trying to convince himself that
he actually is a hard worker.
At this tender stage in life,
students like to think well of
themselves. Their fragile egos
just can’t bear to admit that
they don’t want to work, so
they find things to convince
themselves they’re staying busy.
In the second ring, on the
other hand, we find students

trying to convince others that
they’re staying busy. Here, we
find excuses like organizing
to-do lists, making life plans,
making coffee and—my personal favorite—cleaning out
their inbox. Things that, in
an abstract sense, could make
them more productive but that,
in all actuality, won’t.
Once we enter the third
ring, we reach the point of no
return. Once you engage in
the behaviors, there’s no easy
way back, if any at all. Redditors, Stumblers, Tumblrs, serial
blog-readers and Netflix-watch-

ers lurk in the murky depths of
this ring. Much like the tar pit
in Dante’s opus, once trapped
by them, one does not simply
escape the draws of this behavior. With an almost Pavlovian
sense of conditioning that keeps
you coming back looking for
more, there are no casual users
for these sites. Once here, you’re
here for eternity.
Past this, you get to the real
honey badgers of Procrastination Hell: the ones who really
just couldn’t give any less of a
damn if they tried. The name of
this pit of despair? Grad school.
Here, at the bottom level of
Procrastination Hell, are the
people who when asked, “What
are you doing?” can, in all honesty, respond, “Nothing.” Sitting, staring at the ceiling. Stirring your coffee while staring
ahead in a daze. Throwing little
paper balls into a glass. True,
mindless, apathetic nothingness. Now don’t get me wrong,
everyone does this occasionally,
but the denizens of this ring of
Hell take it to another level.
Every morning, they wake up,
take a shower (optional) and
drive to their lab with absolutely every intention of staring
into space for hours on end.
So, my friends, keep this in
mind when next you bemoan
your procrastination. While
you may be unproductive at the
moment, just remind yourself:
at least I’m not in grad school.

Direction, identity needed for success
As I walk down Tech Walkway (formerly known as Skiles)
and through the Student Center to get to the Technique office each day, I am accosted by
flyers, free swag and awkward
conversation-starters from organizational representatives.
It might be an attempt to convert me to Spiritual Cause A. It
might be a request to purchase
flowers for a charity drive. It
might be a bake sale to fund
a trip to the park. It might be
another, entirely separate attempt to convert me, yet again,
to Spiritual Cause A.
Across these dozens of requests, I might remember the
organizational representative
who tricked me into at least
looking at a flyer by sticking
it under my face and saying,
“Hey, will you throw this away
for me?” But otherwise, I have
little recollection of what spiritual philosophy I entertained
for five minutes, and I certainly cannot remember what
event I partially funded with
the change in my wallet.
This series of events, coupled with short-term memory
loss, makes me wonder: What
makes an organization memorable, unique, useful and relevant to anyone’s daily life? This
question applies to all kinds of
organizations, from ones that
have cropped up since you
started reading this editorial
to ones that have existed for a
century, like this paper.
When evaluating your organization, consider its origi-

collaborate to host an event
or to push an initiative that
only benefits those in your
spheres of influence, which
are typically only members
of the involved organizations.
Furthermore, collaborate with
Kamna Bohra organizations with different
ideas, skills and types of peoManaging Editor ple to bring to the table.
From the moment you step
onto campus, you are inundathosting events and producing ed with the idea of giving back
relevant services. If a student to Tech before you’ve even athappens to find those events or tended a class or joined a club.
services cool enough, not only Don’t get me wrong—nearly
will he be able to communi- three years at the Institute have
cate your organization’s ideals provided me with countless exto his friends, but he’ll also feel periences and a priceless educompelled to join. By doing cation, and I do want to give
this, you roll your techniques back to it. But take a step back
for recruitment and awareness when considering your organization in the context of Tech,
into one.
More recently, I’ve noticed and begin to think beyond
a more collaborative approach Tech to Atlanta, to Georgia, to
to programming and pushing the U.S. and to the world.
When you graduate, you’ll
initiatives on Tech’s campus.
Collaboration is great because begin to contribute to the
it consolidates large groups of greater community, and what
people with similar visions, better time is there to practice
and pragmatically speaking, engaging with those outside of
it generates more funding. the Tech bubble than starting
But don’t do it for the sake of now?
Finally, don’t start an orgaadding “collaboration” to your
organization’s long list of ide- nization for the sake of saying
als. Create your own identity you started an organization or
first so that when organiza- for the satisfaction of typing
tions seek to collaborate, they that line onto your résumé.
know what you have to offer. Your organization will never
Also, be selective about collab- be particularly sustainable or
oration—join forces with the long lived if you can’t transfer
appropriate organizations on its ideals or your passions to its
large events or major initiatives next generations of leaders or if
that target every demographic you don’t consider its longevity
of the Tech community. Don’t in planning.

“Create your own identity first
so that when organizations
seek to collaborate, they know
what you have to offer.”

nal grander purpose. Does it
still serve that purpose? For
older organizations, you’ll often find that the purpose has
evolved, but be sure that evolution is a product of time and
the changing community and
not an abandonment of seemingly lofty goals. You should
also consider other organizations with similar goals and
purposes, and avoid repeating
organizations. Duplication or
even triplication dilutes your
ability to achieve your organization’s goals and often confuses students who are interested in your purpose.
When looking for students
to join your organization or
your cause, don’t just host recruitment drives. Unless those
flyers involve free donuts or
Taco Bell, I will likely throw
them away within 30 seconds
of your shoving them into my
hands. Unless the emails I receive from signing up involve
free donuts or Taco Bell, I
will likely filter them into my
Spam folder. You should instead seek to raise awareness
of your purpose to everyone by

Technique • March 2, 2012 • 9

BUZZ

Around Campus
What do you think of the
NADH since it restarted hot
breakfast and late night?

According to a soon-to-bepublished book, College Success for Students With Physical
Disabilities, Tech now ranks
as one of the most accessible
schools for students with disabilities. The book, which aims
to inform and guide students
with physical disabilities, includes a listing of schools —
of which Tech is a member
— that provide more than the
requirements of the Americans
with Disabilities Act.

Dominant Drive

The women’s basketball
team finished off one of its
best seasons ever on Sunday,
Feb. 26, defeating Clemson
62-50 on Senior Day to finish the year with a 12-4 record
in ACC play. That mark is the
best conference record in program history — and for the
first time ever, the Jackets have
secured a bye in the first round
of this weekend’s ACC Tournament.

Hot Hot Hot

On Sunday, Feb. 26, a fire
alarm went off in the north
wing of North Avenue Apartments. While this is nothing
new to residents of the complex, what was new was that
an actual fire did set off the
alarm. A grease fire went off in
a student’s kitchen, triggering
the alarm. Moreover several
students in the building said
that while their alarms started
blinking, no alarm was being
sounded.

Sudden Slide

At 7-3 through its first
10 games, the softball team
seemed to be fine despite some
early struggles—and then
last weekend happened. Tech
dropped four games in two
days on Feb. 24-25 and lost a
fifth game on Wednesday, Feb.
29, to fall to an even 8-8 on
the season. Only one loss was
to a ranked team, and Tech’s
hopes of remaining in the top
25 are essentially shot.

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If I ever got a tramp stamp, I would want it to say “Caution.
Makes Wide Right Turns.” It would only get BETTER with age!
Is is sad that I know my library card number more than my credit
card number? I need friends!
Football players: saying you are one isn’t gonna get you some!
everyone who likes GT memes should go to ebaums
man i hate twiiter; why do people use it?
if it was never submitted, is it just <dacted> ?
next month is woman’s awareness month, so when is men’s awareness month?
why do frats at tech suck?
you just gotta believe!!
worst thing about my awesome co-op: I can’t read slivers anymore
:( x
I like you too, but I don’t know what to do, silly!
What she order?
…fish fillet
please don’t walk on grass? please don’t put a curve in a high traffic path. #burgerbowl #shortestpathisa straightline
This co-op is missing campus, but loving the lack of homework
keep them windows reallll tight
dW = EBD
Meme’s are becoming way to popular! Will the bubble burst?
to the cute girl in my OS design class: i wish you existed
dude who wrote about Techs’ difficulty thanks your article made
me sit down and rethink my experience here at Tech
shouldn’t cs1332 be about use/implementation instead of how to
build from scratch?
Can a professor really deny a student more paper on a written
exam? Scumbaggery
the sun has gone down, and it’s overcast-take your sunglasses off
right now.
patronize baby tommy’s. they have great pizza
Dear students talking in class, just because you aren’t speaking in
English doesn’t mean it isn’t disruptive.

Together we must end domestic
violence, change attitudes
More than 20 years ago, I
read a study of junior high school
students in Rhode Island that
included one finding I’ve never
been able to get out of my head.
Students were asked if a man who
spent money on a woman during
a date was entitled to force her
into sexual activity. An astounding 25 percent of the young boys
said yes—and even more astounding—17 percent of the junior high
school girls agreed.
You may think that sounds like
a long time ago—and it was. But,
sadly, dating violence remains a
very real problem in our country—especially on college campuses.
Today, while in college, nearly
one in five women will be a victim of sexual assault and one in
ten teens will be hurt on purpose
by someone they are dating. These
aren’t just statistics, these are people you know: your roommates,
your friends, your sisters, your
classmates. This is a problem we
all have to face.
Awareness is the first step to
pushing back against a problem
this big. When I held Senate hearings on violence against women
more than two decades ago, domestic abuse in American society
was rarely spoken about in public. I’ll never forget the stories of
abuse I heard in over a thousand
hours of hearings. The brutality
of family members, acquaintances
and strangers against the women
in their lives was absolutely devastating.
It was those hearings that led to
the Violence Against Women Act,
and since then annual incidents of
domestic violence have dropped
by more than 50 percent. But for
women in college and younger to-

“...ending dating violence and
sexual assualt isn’t just a matter
of laws and legislation. It’s about
education. It’s about attitudes.”
Joe Biden
Vice President of the United States

day, the risk is still much too high.
That’s why I joined with Education Secretary Arne Duncan
last April to announce historic
new guidelines for colleges and
universities about their responsibilities under Title IX to prevent
sexual assault. Under the federal
civil rights law, schools have an
obligation not only to respond
appropriately when an assault occurs, but also to create a climate
on campus that makes such violence unacceptable.
I also started an initiative called
1is2many to help reduce dating
violence and sexual assault among
teens and young adults. We harnessed the power of technology to
get our message out, launching a
national contest to develop “Apps
Against Abuse.” The two winning
apps—which will be available
later this spring—will let you get
in touch with your friends quickly
and safely so you can call for help
if you need it and stop violence
in its tracks. We’ve also made
sure the National Dating Abuse
Helpline can be reached by text,
online, or phone 24/7.
Last month, the FBI changed
the way the federal government
defines rape. The narrow, outdated
definition—unchanged
since 1929—said the assault had
to be forcible and against a woman’s will to be classified as rape.

It’s just not true, and it’s a point
that I make on college campuses
all across the country. Rape is
rape and no means no. No means
no whether drunk or sober. No
means no whether in the dorm
room or on the street. There is
never an excuse. Young women
and men alike need to understand
this. Under the new definition,
rape occurs when there is no consent, and it also includes sexual
assault against boys and young
men in national law enforcement
reporting.
These are important changes,
but ending dating violence and
sexual assault isn’t just a matter
of laws and legislation. It’s about
education. It’s about attitudes. It’s
about your participation. I need
your help to address this issue in
your dorms and on your campuses. Studies show that men’s ideas
about what other men think is
one of the strongest determinants
of how they act. So guys, you need
to speak out.
The ultimate measure of a civilized society is how its laws and
culture treat the abuse of women.
Attitudes can change. Violence
can end. But it can’t happen without universal understanding that
dating violence and sexual assault
will never be tolerated anywhere,
at any time, for any reason. Period. That’s all of our responsibility.

Being at a diverse campus such as Tech,
this Week’s theme of the Focus section
takes a peek at different nationalities,
languages and cultures on campus.

11

Friday,
March 2, 2012

Tech hosts variety of nationalities, cultures
Olcay Sarmaz, an Operations
Management grad student from
Turkey.
Different cultures have difDuring the 2010-2011 school
year, Tech hosted 4,364 interna- ferent foods, different languages
tional and scholar students, giv- and different lifestyles. Going to
ing both international students school in a foreign land, missing
and Americans here at Tech the home is inevitable. Sometimes it
opportunity to experience foreign can be a familiar aroma or hearing
cultures. On any given day, the a few words of one’s native tongue,
hustle to class can be character- but it seems to be the food that
ized by the sound of several differ- makes students miss home the
ent languages as peers communi- most.
“[You] can’t replicate the taste
cate the trials and tribulations of
of the food back home. The spices
life and school.
The six countries that send the are so different,” Sandhiniti said.
“[I miss] My family and dumost students to Tech are India,
China, South Korea, France, Tai- rian (a spiky fruit native to Asia),
wan and Turkey, according to an they’re amazing,” Wong said.
“Luckily, Atlanta has everyOIE report. The fact that Tech is
a diverse campus will not come as thing I miss from France, but it’s
a surprise to many. The myriad of just far more expensive, especially
cultures and languages that rou- cheese,” Anquez said.
Different cultures carry their
tinely pass by Tech landmarks
contribute to the uniqueness of own stereotypes and misconceptions. It happens every day all over
the Institute’s campus.
Most Tech students have at the world. Somewhere, someone is
some point in their college life probably mistaking the continent
come across an international stu- of Africa for a country, wearing a
dent, whether it be in a residence beret around Paris, or assuming
hall, at a football game or in a that all Americans only listen to
class. But how much do Tech stu- country music.
Many of these stereotypes
dents actually know about these
different nationalities, their lan- are common misconceptions
guage, their food, their culture? that, while sometimes based on
harmless fun,
More
imporlead to many
tantly,
what
do they know “The biggest culture people getting
about the chal- shock was how kind the wrong idea
lenges they face people are to each oth- about a place
and sometimes
when they arrive in the U.S.? er. Even though you forming hurtThe biggest don’t know somebody, ful biases.
“We’re not
challenge facing they will just give you
those new to the a ‘hello’ or nod their all super crazy
smart,” Sandhicountry is the
culture shock. heads, which is not the niti said.
“Genera l ly
Greasy
food, case in Europe.”
people think
monster trucks,
Olcay Sarmaz, MBA student
the language of
and the second
Turkey is Araamendment are
all things that many Americans bic. It’s not; it’s Turkish,” Sarmaz
grew up with but are alien in other said.
The American culture is very
cultures. The cultural differences
felt by different nationalities vary. different from many Asian cul“The diversity of people here; tures.
“Americans tend to be straightthere’s so many different races and
languages, and the pace of life var- forward when speaking, but we
ies widely here,” said Jane Wong, (Chinese) tend to be more respectan undergraduate ID major and ful and use hedging when coman exchange student from China. municating,” Wong said.
“We were raised in a complete“The amount of unhealthy
food that is available,” said Vivek ly different culture. Whereas here
Sandhiniti, a first-year BME ma- parents like well-balanced athletic
and smart kids, most Korean parjor from India.
“I was shocked by the amount ents only care about grades,” Ro
of overweight people here. There said.
While some misconceptions
are heavier people in France, but
not nearly as many morbidly are ignorant and politically incorobese people,” said Martin An- rect, some are just amusing.
“Well, women in France do
quez, a PHYS graduate student
shave their armpits, there are nonfrom France.
While some found the food nude beaches, and not everyone
hard to adapt to at first, others smokes,” Anquez said.
“Taiwan is not in Thailand,”
picked up on everyday nuances.
“In Korea, everything is very said Chung Yu Shih, a PHYS
close by so people just walk every- graduate student from Taiwan.
Tech’s campus is home to stuwhere or ride the bus. But in the
[U.S.], everyone just drives cars to dents from many backgrounds
get anywhere,” said Esther Ro, a and provides others the chance
first-year BIO major from South to learn about these cultures.
Students intrigued by different
Korea.
“The biggest culture shock was languages and nationalities have
how kind people are to each oth- plenty of opportunities to engage
er. Even though you don’t know with students from other counsomebody, they will just give you tries. There will seldom be chanca ‘hello’ or nod their heads, which es to interact with a diverse group
is not the case in Europe,” said such as present on Tech’s campus.
By Emily Moran
Contributing Writer

Top 6 Ethnicities of International Students

1
3
4
5
6
2

1. India
29%

+

Population
Capital
Independence
Currency
Exchange Rate*

1.2 billion
New Delhi
1947
Rupee
0.0203 USD

3. South Korea
15%

+

Population
Capital
Independence
Currency
Exchange Rate*

48 million
Seoul
1919
Won
0.0009 USD

5. Taiwan
2.8%

+

Population
Capital
Independence
Currency
Exchange Rate*

23 million
Taipei
2000
Taiwan Dollar
0.034 USD

2. China
21%+

Population
Capital
Independence
Currency
Exchange Rate*

1.3 billion
Beijing
1949
Yuan
0.159 USD

4. France
4.8%+

Population
Capital
Independence
Currency
Exchange Rate*

65 million
Paris
1789
Euro
1.335 USD

6. Turkey
2.3%+

Population
Capital
Independence
Currency
Exchange Rate*

+Percent of international student population
*Per unit of country’s currency

Just looking around on campus, it is a fairly easy conclusion
that most students own a smartphone. Simultaneously keeping
up with email, Facebook, text
messages, Twitter and others can
cause an information overload.
On Facebook, Twitter hashtags
have become the norm and students email each other in phrases
that have spelling errors and abbreviations. With the ability to
use so many forms of communication at once, students can have
trouble altering their language to
match the form.
“One of the problems I have
with owning a smart phone is that
I’ve begun to email as another way
to text,” said Meara Coy, first-year
CHEM major. “I have a hard time

remembering to begin an email
with a greeting and end with a
signature. There have been times
I’ve forgotten to address a professor correctly and it has been really
embarrassing.”
Perhaps due to the increasing number of informal emails
received, some professors have
included sections in their syllabi about the proper way to send
emails to them. Classes such as
CS 1371 include an entire lab
dedicated to using the Buzzport
email server to set up a signature.
Another factor that leads to
errors in email etiquette is how
accustomed society has grown to
rapid communication. In conversation, there is no way to pause
and edit the words already spoken, but in an email there is as
much time as needed. Often people neglect to review their emails,

and the results can come across as
unprofessional and sloppy.
Naturally email accidents happen, and it is important to recognize appropriate ways to remedy the situation. If a minor typo
has occurred, there is no need to
panic—mistakes happen. If an
email has been sent to the wrong
recipient, simply send a apologetic
email and move on.
Be conscious of attachment
sizes. Large attachments will clog
up the recipient’s inbox and cause
trouble. Use services like DropBox or Yousendit.com to share
large files.
Another common misconception is that using exclamation
points makes one seem cheerful.
Keep exclamation use to appropriate events like celebrations.

ence a culture or understand the
business ethics from the international experience?
In a tough economic environment like today’s, it is becoming
clear that students must find a
way to reinvent the traditional
education strategies in order to
make themselves more competitive in today’s job market.
While studying abroad can
open the mind to different cultures and experiences, a Eurotrip
isn’t necessarily going to attract

employers to candidates. International job markets are fierce
and require students to master
not only different languages and
cultures, but also the ability to
understand the business ethics of
the world. In an effort to provide
students with the highest possibility of success, Tech has created the
Languages for Business and Technology program (LBAT).
The LBAT program provides
the opportunity for future currency traders, importing/export-

See Email, page 14

Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications

An overload of communication outlets can lead to typos or the
accidental use of casual language in important email messages.

Part of Tech’s strategic education plan focuses on providing
students with the opportunity to
acquire some sort of international
experience by the time they graduate. With study abroad programs,
exchanges, international internships and more, picking the right
program can be a challenge. Does
the student want to have fun and
travel or learn a language, experi-

ing agents and international stock
brokers of Tech to immerse themselves in the cultural and economic practices of their target country.
Students are given the chance to
spend four to 10 weeks of their
summer semester living, working,
and traveling in one of nine different countries in order to gain a
global perspective and new understanding of a particular country.
“I felt like it was a great opportunity for me to learn more about
Korea and its history and tradi-

tions outside of the classroom. I
took up to the Korean 2002 level
here at Tech. Though I did learn
the basics of the Korean language,
I yearned to learn more about the
culture in a different way,” said
Seol Lee, fifth-year ChBE major
and participant in the Korean
LBAT program.
Each country’s program is
specific to both the economic and
cultural practices, but follows a
See LBAT, page 14

Nestled in the northeast corner of campus, just behind Mewborn Field, is a slightly unassuming looking building that goes
largely unnoticed by the majority
of students here on campus. Yet
for some, this large and architecturally distinguished building
represents more than just Tech;
to them, it represents a nation,
a populace, and a language. It is
here that one finds the Language
institute.
Located in the halls and corridors of the O’Keefe Building,
Tech’s Language Institute serves
as a middleman between the university and the large number of
international students who come
to Tech to study in the U.S.
Established in 1958, the Language Institute was created in order to provide non-native English
speaking students with the opportunity to improve their English
grammar and communication
skills through an intensive English program (IEP).
“[The Institute] started in
modern languages. It was just
a summer program and then
through the years it kind of expanded. Because it’s a non-credit
program, in the Eighties it shifted
over to what’s now called Georgia
Tech Professional Education. For
many years we were just an intensive English program getting
students ready to do university

work,” said Karen Tucker, director of the Language Institute.
Run by an expert faculty
trained specifically to teach English as a second language (ESL),
the IEP provides highly specialized programs to help aid language skills development. During the course of the semester,
students study for twenty hours
a week in one of the many core
classes offered in order to develop
a proficiency in reading, writing,
speaking, and grammar.
Along with this core curriculum, students can choose from
a variety of electives that range
from movie making, podcasting
for pronunciation, and survival
English.
Not limited to just Tech students, the program is open to
students who may be looking to
attend other universities throughout the nation, non-academic professionals, and anyone else who is
looking to polish off their English
language skills.
“We also had business people
that would come to improve their
English and sometimes people
came for social reasons, but probably 80 percent are college bound.
They could be Tech students, they
could go to other places,” Tucker
said. Besides providing help with
the English language during the
year, the institute provides summer educational programs such
as pre-MBA work, graduate prep
workshops, and a short-summer
IEP course for students and any

one else in the Atlanta community.
“I’ve been here in America for
eleven months and the experience
has been great. I improved my
language skills and it’s been a really great experience,” said Mohammed Aljaizani from Saudi Arabi.
The Language Institute’s desire to further the education of
language skills for its students is
not confined to the borders of I-75
and Ferst drive. By reaching out to
other programs across the globe,
the institute now has partnerships
with universities and organiza-

tions worldwide.
“Instead of just intensive programs, we’ve expanded our services. We do special exchange
groups now for the campus. For
example, there’s a Chinese summer program where Americans
can go over to Shanghai Jioa Tong
University and so we host Chinese
students here,” said Tucker.
Additionally, the Institute has
created the Fulbright program, a
conglomerate between Tech, the
Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) in the UAE, the
Turkish Ministries of Education,

and King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology created
to address Tech’s growing interest in Middle Eastern culture and
languages.
Last year, Anna Potter, associate director of the Language Institute, conducted a recruiting fair in
Brazil.
“Brazil has a growing market
for international students. The
open doors report [published by
the Language Institute] tells us
where international students are
coming from and Brazil has really
shot up [recently],” Potter said.

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writing to non-native speakers and others looking to learn the English language at the Institute.

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STUDENTS SPEAK
Each week, the Focus section seeks student opinion on some of the most important and
pertinent questions related to the theme of the week.

International students find options for native food
By Madison Lee
Contributing Writer

Living away from home can
mean a lot of changes for many
students, but the experience can
be dramatically different for international students and those
who have spent much of their lives
growing up in another country.
Food is an integral part of a
culture that becomes embedded
in a person’s lifestyle over time.
A diverse city like Atlanta offers
many restaurants that reflect the
varied tastes of its occupants.
However, some national dishes
are harder to come by than others,
and like sleeping in a different bed
or driving a new car, going without something that one has grown
accustomed to can lead to serious
withdrawals.
For some international students, their favorite dishes and
other favorite foreign fare can be
found just a car ride away or without even leaving the house.
“I love all kinds of Korean
meat, Korean barbeque. I go to
restaurants in Korea Town, and
there are special events in the
iHouse like iKorea where we cook
foods from different places,” said
Joon Kim, a fourth-year CHBE
major from Korea.

On the other hand, some students find it a bit more challenging to get a taste of home here in
Atlanta.
“The most [typically] Danish
food I buy is from Ikea, where they
sell a rye bread mixture. Iit’s really
the closest you can get to the Danish bread anywhere around here,”
said Birgitte Krag, a second-year
CM major from Denmark.
Some are lucky and end up
finding restaurants that cater to
their tastes.
“I know there is a restaurant
called Babette’s Café nearby,
named after the title of a Danish
movie. I think it’s actually mostly
European or French, but it also
has some Scandinavian food,”
Krag said.
When the search for cultural
delicacies yields less than fruitful
results, sometimes preparing their
own traditional dishes is the best
way for students to satisfy their
longing for that elusive national
cuisine.
“There’s a kind of thin yogurt
called koldskål that I had for Valentine’s Day that’s really good,”
said Michala Mathiesen, a secondyear CM major from Denmark.
Usually made with buttermilk,
raw eggs, sugar, vanilla and lemon, koldskål is a dish that is espe-

cially popular during the warmer
months in Denmark.
Yet, luckily for some, the traditional fare of some countries can
be very similar to foods found in
the U.S. and somewhat easier to
come by.
“I would eat lots of different
vegetables, potatoes, lamb, cabbage, salmon and rashers, or back
bacon, which is very lean and
doesn’t have as much fat as the
bacon you get here,” said Conor
O’Malley, a third-year EE major
from Ireland.
Traditional dishes are not always a rare commodity and many
cultures can be fairly represented
in one’s diet with simple recipes
and nearby dining.
“I like beans on toast, porridge
and fish and chips, all very English,” said Nikita Rao, a third-year
STaC and ALIS major from India
who was raised in the U.K.
“There’s one [dish] that’s native
to my region of India. It’s like a
lentil and tomato-based soup with
lime and spices, and you mix it in
with rice called rasam or saaru.
There’s also a place that sells food
that’s close to Indian street food
called Chat Patti, and a North Indian restaurant called The Palace,
but of course my mother’s home
food’s the best,” Rao said.

Email

from page 12

Careful word choice should be
able to express emotions without
the use of punctuation.
Still, some students prefer to
use colloquial language in email
to create a closer bond with their
professors.
“I know all my teachers by
first name because I go to their
office hours. They never complained when I shot them a short
email filled with errors or forgot
to address them as Doctor or Pro-

LBAT

from page 12

general template in which after
completing the required language
prerequisites here at Tech, students continue learning the country’s language through language
immersion classes, which are
coupled with visits to historic and
leading economic sites throughout the country.
Students are equipped with
the knowledge and skill on how
to pursue internships or intended
careers within their country of
study.
“My heritage is German. My
mother was born there and married my American father. Once
I came to Tech, I decided that I
wanted to learn German and gain
a minor in [it]. The LBAT program helped me achieve that,”
said James Ruppert, a fifth-year
ISyE major.
“I am very interested in international corporations, and specifically German ones. I think we visited between eight and ten firms

fessor,” said Cameron Grace, a
fourth-year ME major.
Though professors may be
friendly, it is best to assume they
would like to be addressed professionally through email. The best
way to do this is to include a proper greeting and signature with a
descriptive subject.
Before sending any email, read
over the content to make sure that
there are no spelling mistakes and
no slang language such as ‘dude’
or ‘lol’ and the email isn’t signed
off ‘xoxoxo.’
[and were] able to converse with
some high-up executives from
large German companies. I am
currently in the process of finding
a summer internship with a company that we visited while on the
program,” Ruppert said.
The LBAT program is currently conducted in Senegal, Germany, France, Spain, Peru, China,
South Korea, Jordan, Russia and
Japan.
“The whole experience is something I would never trade. I am
only half-joking when I say that
Germany feels like a second home
to me. I am actually going back
this summer to participate in a
internship,” said Emily Jackson, a
third-year IAML major.
Even though the deadline for
the LBAT programs this summer has passed, students should
plan early for 2013 and take
classes accordingly in their next
semesters to free up their schedules. For more information, visit
http://modlangs.gatech.edu/
lbat.

Song Byeok presents new perspectives on North Korea
By Joe Murphy
Contributing Writer

Freedom and peace. Those are
the themes of the Korean artist Song Byeok, a man who lived
under and escaped from one of
the most oppressive regimes on
Earth, and who, on Feb. 23, came
to Tech to share his both his story
and the new direction that his art
has taken.
Byeok began his career as a
propagandist for the government
of North Korea under the reign of
the late Kim Jong-il over two decades ago. His art at the time depicted North Korea as a glorious
country of privilege and power;
however, when famine struck in
the 1990s and Byeok was thrown
into prison for trying to escape to
China to find food for his family,
the artist’s opinion of his country’s government turned toward contempt.
After enduring nearstarvation in prison and
the death of his family,
Byeok successfully escaped
the country in 2002 and
resolved to show to the
entire world the truth
about the machine that
is North Korea.

Byeok’s art now uses satire by the Tech Chapter of Liberty dom of speech has nothing to do
where it once showed propaganda in North Korea (LINK), Song with North Korea.”
on behalf of the state. A paint- Byeok’s visit consisted of a lecture
And that is just what Byeok deing of Kim Jong-il’s face with by the artist himself and a slide- picts in his artwork: the freedom
the body of Marilyn Monroe is show of artwork from his latest to speak out against your governone example of Byeok’s unique exhibition titled Departure.
ment if you choose.
style; he hopes to expose the un“My goal is to be the light of
Many of Byeok’s pieces center
believably oppressive nature of the hope… to people under oppres- on the caricature of Kim Jong-il;
North Korean government simply sion,” Byeok said about the under- the glasses, the high hair, and the
by showing just how ridiculous lying meanings of his artwork. “It boyish smile of the former North
it looks in his eyes. Other recent is time to reform and open North Korean Supreme Leader are regupieces by Byeok include a paint- Korea, so that North Koreans can lar subjects of Byeok’s satirical
ing of expressionless, complacent see what the real world is. Free- work.
North Korean soldiers, and one
Byeok does not expect the reof a group of schoolgirls who
cent death of Kim Jong-il to
“Instead of
are blissfully unaware
affect his artwork.
portraying North Korea as a
of anything beyond
“He isn’t the
bad country, I try to find a different
the borders of their
god he [porown country.
trayed]
perspective that will allow viewers to see it in a
Sp on s or e d
himdifferent light.” -Song Byeok
primarily
self

to be,” Byeok said.
Therefore, it seems that Byeok
depicts Kim less as a single person and more as a representation
of the North Korean government
as a whole.
Despite all the hardship Byeok
has suffered through in the past,
the aim of his artwork is not to
promote hatred or spite against
the North Korean regime, but
rather to prompt change from
within it.
“Instead of portraying North
Korea as a bad country, I try to
find a different perspective that
will allow viewers to see it in a
different light,” Byeok said.
Although it is so easy to label
North Korea as an example of
absolute oppression, through his
artwork, Byeok hopes to change
that label and convince people
that his homeland is simply a
country in desperate need of
freedom.
Byeok plans to use his
art to spread his message across the globe,
beginning here in Atlanta and continuing on
to cities like New York
and Washington
D.C.

A unique blend of people
crowded the Variety Playhouse
on Saturday, Feb. 25 to see and
hear Dark Star Orchestra recreate
a Grateful Dead concert. The audience ranged from veteran dead
heads to teenagers too young to
remember the Dead’s figurehead,
Jerry Garcia, pass away in 1995.
Dark Star has been touring for
12 years and has over 30 years of
Grateful Dead concert material
to recreate. The Grateful Dead is
known as the original and per-

haps best jam band. Drummer
Rob Koritz noted some of the
complexities of recreating an act
that spawned a generation of fans
across the globe.
“We certainly aren’t playing
it note for note; it would be impossible and that would defeat
the purpose of playing improvisational music. What we’re going
for when we recreate a show is
[to accurately portray] the set list
that they played that particular
night, the tones that their instruments had during that particular
era, the tempos of the songs and
arrangements of the songs during
that particular era,” Koritz said. It
is a big task but we were all dead
heads before we joined Dark Star.
We’ve all seen the shows. We’re all
students of the music, being musicians and fans of the Grateful
Dead.”
This particular night, Dark
Star played a set from June 29,
1976. Highlights included a fastpaced rendition of “The Music
Never Stopped,” which featured

Photo courtesy of Brian Edmonds / Student publications

the improvisation jamming that
Dark Star and the Grateful Dead
are known for, along with “Brown
Eyed Women” that had the audience singing along to almost every note. However, the Variety

Playhouse did not lend itself to
the grand spectrum of the Dead’s
set. In the late 70s the Dead pioneered a speaker system known as
the “Wall of Sound.” This mammoth set up delivered incredibly

loud volume to often large, open
amphitheater venues. Variety
Playhouse, on the other hand, is a
small venue with limited acoustics
See Star, page 16

Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar
Movie is even more absurd than
it sounds. Taking the role of writers, directors and actors, Tim
Heidecker and Eric Wareheim
of Tim and Eric Awesome Show,
Great Job! have now taken their
bizarre brand of humor into the
domain of feature-length cinema
with exceedingly mixed results.
While many movies often have
a fairly broad or numerous audience that they keep in mind, Tim
and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is
almost unquestionably geared to
satisfy viewers who already love
the sketch comedy antics seen on
the television show.
The bare plot in this film revolves around the creation of a
fictional billion dollar movie by
Tim and Eric, with a subsequent
and vigorous condemnation given
by the executives who fund the

movie, the Schlaaang corporation.
Faced with the prospect of repaying their billion-dollar investment
after having blown it on frivolous
luxury items, the pair end up
watching a kitschy advertisement
with a ‘successful’ shopping mall
owner (Will Ferrell) inviting anyone to come manage the business
to make a billion dollars. Drawn
by this exaggerated promise, they
skip town to live out their new
dream as shopping mall managers
while avoiding their debt. As one
might expect, this task is hardly a
cakewalk and isn’t made any easier by the peculiar residents and
shop owners that live in the mall.
Rounding out the cast are wellknown actors taking odd roles,
such as John C. Reilly, Will Forte
and Zach Galifianakis. Aside
from the strangeness of their roles,
these characters can be surprisingly entertaining to watch interacting with the deadpan Tim and
Eric. There are also some poorly
acted roles, though Tim and Eric
are also known for their use of
amateur actors along with celebrity look-a-likes.
Beyond this minimal plot and
amusing cast, it is hard for viewers to follow. From the start of the
movie, terrible commercials and
public service announcements
pull the audience out of the story
before tossing them right back in.
While it is hard to understand
their humor, it is worth noting that
the surreal nature of their humor
can be appreciated if one doesn’t
attempt to figure it out. There are

Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing

a number of gross-out moments
which are presented in bad taste,
but these may also be part of the
joke. Tim and Eric aren’t content
to simply parody any medium,
but they instead take the absurd
or silly elements out of things such
as PSAs, commercials, trailers and
big films and throw them into the
audience’s face.
Heidecker and Wareheim were
recently in town for a student
press interview while touring the
country.
“Well we’d made 50 episodes,
and felt like we finished that chapter, wanted to expand into short
films. We’ve always wanted to
make a movie from the very beginning,” Heidecker said of why
they made the move from television to film.
“Just like how the TV show is
very much about television, so our
film is very much about movies,”
Wareheim said on the challenges

faced in the transition.
In person, the duo possesses a
similar deadpan humor, but responded seriously to the notion
that their show and film had no
narrative sense, and were against
the term ‘anti-humor’ being applied to their work.
“We think it’s a misnomer. Our
intentions are always to be funny,
to make you laugh, but we’re just
not relying on tired old staples to
be very comfortable for people.
But we’re not against comedy,
we’re all for comedy.” Heidecker
said.
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie won’t win any critical
awards, but that is not what the
movie was created to be. It will
make an audience chuckle, laugh
and squirm in various ways, so it’s
pivotal that viewers keep this in
mind while watching. Fans will be
thrilled to watch, but it’s not likely
to win over new audiences.

Star

from page 15

in comparison. While Dark Star
was able to play the classic Dead
hits with precision and accuracy,
the concert experience lacked the
festive environment that can be
heard even in old concert recordings.
On a different note, the seventies-era set list did have a country
twang and sound that cannot
simply be defined as rock and roll.
Koritz explained the process the
band goes through to choose their
material. “It’s actually a pretty
complicated thing to do. We have
one guy who does it, because if every one of us tried to throw in our
two cents we would never agree
on a show to play,” Koritz said.
He went on to explain some
of the different parameters that
determine their song preferences.
“Some of the Dead setups are
very small with one drummer and
some of them are enormous with
a massive drum set behind them
with an organ and a keyboard,”
Koriz said. “Also, we take into
consideration what type of show
we did last time we were in your
market. If we did a seventies show
last time, we probably won’t do
another one because we want to
give each market the flavors of every era. Sometimes for fun, we’ll
be able to play a show from the
Fox Theatre in Atlanta. But we
have it all set before the tour begins.”
Dark Star is an interesting act.
However, those who aren’t original dead heads and were born a
generation too late might want
to buy a concert recording of the
Grateful Dead instead.

Last Tuesday, Feb. 28, the Student Center Programs Council
(SCPC) held its first Tech Idol
competition. The event was hosted by Mr. Georgia Tech, Jacob
Tzegaegbe, and showcased the talents of 12 students, four of whom
went on to participate as finalists
in the second round.
Kicking things off was Jerica
Richardson, a fifth-year BME
major, singing “Hero.” While she
dazzled with her gold dress and
rich voice, her a cappella performance could have been better.
Bryan Lewis, a third-year CM
major, sang “Everything” karaoke style, but in spite of missing a
verse, he was quick to shake it off
with a positive attitude and a powerful register. Niranjana Mani,
ECE grad student, followed with
a piano-accompanied “I Believe
I Can Fly,” but seemed to play it
safe during the song’s bolder moments, failing to make it her own.
Fanye Abbey, a fifth-year ME
major, sang “Golden Train,” but in
spite of a strong falsetto and stage
presence, the song itself didn’t fit
his vocal range. Anne Meadows,
a first-year BA major, delivered an
impressive, acoustic rendition of
oldies hit “(Sittin’ On) The Dock
of the Bay.” Erin Lightfoot, a firstyear IE major, chose an original
piece titled “Another Me,” playing
both piano and vocals; the song itself was catchy and had a memora-

Photo courtesy of Sho Kitamura / Student publications

ble, off-beat rhythm, but the audience participation may have been
a stretch. Casey Jordan, third-year
MGT major, sang “Crazy” and
managed to wow with high notes,
but the in between made it not the
best song to highlight his voice.
Hengyi Liu, a fifth-year Econ
major, set herself apart with Chinese pop song “Lonely Bowling
Ball,” a strong choice due to its
wide vocal range and use of vibrato. MBA student Nathan Settembrini, played and sang an acoustic
“Set Fire to the Rain,” but failed to
capture the bold moments. Tamrynd Parkinson, a fourth-year BA
major, also sang a song by Adele,
but opted for “Turning Tables,”
demonstrating a wide vocal range
with nice swells. Maria Samuel, a
first-year BME major, sang “Ain’t
No Other Man,” and displayed
a strong voice, but her inability
to handle the microphone led to
some fluctuation and feedback.
Rounding out the competition
was Preston Mayo, a second-year
BA major, with “Feeling Good,”

accompanied by Tech’s Jazz Ensemble.
As a panel of three judges
scored the first round, there was
a brief intermission featuring A
cappella group Taal Tadka, whose
signature South Asian/World fusion was a welcome addition to
the evening. The second round
featured Bryan Lewis, Hengyi
Liu, Tamryn Parkinson and Preston Mayo singing “Hallelujah,”
“To Be Loved,” “Stop and Stare”
and “Me and Mrs. Jones” respectively.
At the end of the night, Preston
Mayo was crowned Tech Idol via
text entry by the audience. While
a number of live TV shows have
adopted this method, it retains
the same fundamental flaw regardless of where employed: opening a poll to an audience sacrifices
professional opinion and turns
a competition into a popularity contest. Voting mechanisms
aside, the contestants gave splendid performances, setting the bar
high for next year.

Photo courtesy of Alliance Theatre

By Allan Martell
Contributing Writer

It has been 110 years since the
first theatrical adaptation of The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1902.
The Alliance Theatre celebrates
this anniversary and brings the
classic play back to the stage.
Once again, the whole family can
walk down the yellow brick road
on this 70-minute journey.
Even though this story originates from the famous book by
L. Frank Baum, the version the
Alliance directs is based on the
1939 classic film directed by Victor Fleming. American television
popularized this version and it has
been aired repeatedly ever since
1956.
The Wizard of Oz tells the story

OUR TAKE: «««««
of Dorothy Gale, a young child
from Kansas who arrives in the
land of Oz after a tornado blows
away her house. Sharisa Whatley embodies this innocent main
character. Whatley’s performance
grows as the plot develops, due in
part to her playful empathy for
the Scarecrow (Lowrey Brown),
See Wizard, page 19

BIGBANG is back. This past
Wednesday, an exciting event
unfolded unbeknownst to many
Americans: the unleashing of one
of South Korea’s foremost idol
group’s (boy band) latest album
Alive. This release is notable for
many reasons as Korean pop (Kpop) becomes a definite force in
the world, and this release is an
important recovery in the group’s
career, but most importantly because the music is simply pretty
awesome.
Even though the quintet released an album, Tonight, almost
exactly a year ago, the reality is
the gap seems much longer. Previous to that album, the group had
been on a two-year hiatus as they
promoted themselves in Japan and
launched solo careers. And even
though Tonight was well crafted as
ever and sold well, their hopes of
re-entry into the public eye were
shattered when two of their members faced headlining controversies and promotions were put on
hold.
Korea can be a notoriously
difficult place for stars, where
fandom abounds. The fans are
extremely devoted and fervent, as
are the detractors. Vocalist Daesung faced these difficulties after

Photo courtesy of YG Entertainment

a car accident that resulted in
the death of a motorcyclist. Even
though it was an accident with no
drugs or alcohol, he was labeled a
“murderer” by the media and netizens, forcing him into seclusion
and an onslaught of guilt and depression.
Soon after, BIGBANG’s leader GD fell under a great deal of
scrutiny for testing positive for
marijuana usage — even a miniscule amount of pot usage by a
celebrity in Korea is a big deal.
He was forced to withdraw from
promotions and with two out of
five members out BIGBANG’s
future was unclear. Each member
had solid solo careers they could
pursue instead and it could have
easily been the end of Korea’s bestknown and most-bankable group
worldwide.
This makes Alive’s release
all the more important – a true
comeback. BIGBANG does not
shy away from their past, but rather embraces it. From the claims of
“I’m still alive” over the intro track
to the ending solo outing of Daesung the pain is acknowledged,
but more so the triumph over it.
Easily the best track on Alive,

“Blue” most openly faces painful
memories while not falling into
the usual K-pop melodrama.
K-pop groups largely compete, at least seemingly, with each
other to see who can win the vocal Olympics, dance the most
inhumanly or wear the most outlandish clothes. BIGBANG often
participates in these antics, but
on “Blue” they opt for the subtle.
Rappers, GD and TOP, lose their
cocky inflection and the three
vocalists don’t sing at the top of
their lungs to express their hurt,
making “Blue” soothing and sad
— nothing short of a masterpiece.
The rest of the album is far
more upbeat as BIGBANG navigates through a different genre for
each track. From the electronica
of “Love Dust” to the R&B “Bad
Boy” to the dance “Fantastic
Baby,” they acknowledge and often outdo even the most popular
artists stateside.
The only problems with this album come from strange management decisions by their label. All
six songs from the album (a typical length for a Korean release) are
being simultaneously promoted
as singles. Though all are strong

enough to stand alone, this severely limits the potential success of
the tracks as they compete not just
with other artists but themselves.
Also disappointing is the image
they have decided to take for this
album, which is decidedly bad
with even stranger haircuts and
clothes than usual. As all tracks
have music videos being released
at the same time, this poor image
will be reflected six times with no
opportunity for change.
That being said, BIGBANG
has the potential to at least begin breaking into the American
music market with Alive, leading
the way for even more Korean artists. In the past few weeks they
have managed to produce numbers that are hard to ignore. The
“Blue” music video was viewed
over 10 million times in a week on
YouTube, featuring in the most
viewed, and their album hassold
well, staying in the Top 10 on
iTunes for days despite little to no
promotion in English. With an
upcoming world tour and strong
sales, BIGBANG may soon break
beyond just Asia and Europe and
tap into the largest music market
in the world — America.

Wizard

from page 17

the Tin Woodsman (Jordan
Craig) and the Cowardly Lion
(Brad Raymond).
Reay Kaplan, another cast
member, also deserves mention.
She displays great artistry enacting Kikko and manipulating The
Crow. While the first character
is the head winged monkey, the
second one is a bunraku-like crow
puppet. To embody a non-human
character like Kikko, Kaplan invests a lot of energy. She has to
move in unfamiliar ways at all
times. Moreover, puppeteering
the Crow demands her full attention in the mechanical operation
while maintaining a convincing
performance.
Besides the cast, the production team earns recognition too.
The Wizard of Oz employs clever
techniques to mimic depth and
long distances. The producers display certain items on the center
stage at one moment, and immediately after, the same item shows
up again on a smaller scale in the
upstage. This succession gives the
audience the sensation of movement along an open space.
Within the story, the Land of
Oz represents the human drive for
improvement: cowardice in search
of courage, naivety looking for
wit, indifference wanting to turn
to tenderness and solitude hoping
to go back home.
The play may refer to two
separate worlds, but the constant
struggle of good versus evil connects both. After all, while some
witches torment their lands with
cruel enchantments and flying
brooms in Oz, others just need
unfair laws to infuse fear in Kansas. Nonetheless, this play proves
that fellowship and love are stronger than any evil deed.
Overall, The Wizard of Oz
promises a magical, entertaining
moment for the family while exposing a deep truth: There is no
place like home.

Although virtually all Tech
students can say that they have
enjoyed dining out at Moe’s,
Ray’s, Tin Drum or the everpopular Waffle House, few have
heard of Umma’s House Restaurant and Cafe. Located just across
the parking lot from Yogli Mogli
in Tech Square, this Korean and
Japanese restaurant opened last
fall and seems to be the perfect
option for gourmet meals in walking distance.
Upon first entering the café,
diners will notice the simple, lowkey atmosphere with a sophisticatedly comfortable, urban feel.
Servers are certainly friendly and
the overall interior seems like an
attractive, brighter-than-normal
noodle shop. The place appears
clean and the ambiance is inviting, with trendy wall art and plenty of open space. Plastic utensils
are merely one aspect of this metropolitan dining experience that
makes you feel right at home.
A variety of organic teas and
coffee brews are offered, making the eatery an ideal spot for a
student-on-the-go to socialize for
a quick bite or sit down for a full
lunch or dinner. The interior of
the building is large and open,
with Internet access for students

Photo courtesy of Umma’s House Restaurant and Cafe

to stop in and complete some
work in the quiet, zen-like zone.
In terms of meals, Umma’s offers an assortment of noodle, rice,
and sushi options—with portion
sizes that can easily provide leftovers. A range of available appetizers—from customary Korean
classics to ordinary salads to tasty
broths—are affordable and help
to complement any meal.
Whether you are picky and
simply looking for a delectable
teriyaki chicken entrée or whether
you truly want a traditional, cultural hors d’oeuvre, the menu is
diverse enough to please a crowd
yet concentrated enough to remain a “well-being oriented Korean & Japanese restaurant.”
However, no matter what
course you decide upon, the chefs
at Umma’s do not disappoint. The
salmon is absolutely delicious, as
was the wasabi, chicken curry and
dragon rolls.
The only downside to Umma’s
is that the meals generally cost
at least $10, after tax and tip; although this is relatively inexpensive for sushi-lovers, it may not
be ideal for students on a college

budget. After all, one can walk
around the corner and get an
oversized chocolate-chip waffle
for around $3, spend a few bucks
for a kids’ meal at Moe’s, or spend
Buzz funds — better known as
parents’ money — for a large order of pizza.
Though many businessmen can
be seen happily dining in Umma’s
during their lunch break, perhaps
the semi-costly price range explains why the restaurant has not
yet caught on with the campus
population. Plus, the prices don’t
seem competitive enough with
Tin Drum, which serves meals
just a few short yards away — and
also accepts Buzzcards for that
matter.
Nevertheless, Umma’s offers
a perfect option for a special occasion night out within walking
distance of campus. It provides a
refreshing break from the routinely tiresome dining hall visits and
the food is not only delicious, but
high quality and healthy as well.
For those looking to skip that
weekly burrito or that large order of pizza, give Umma’s in Tech
Square a try.

Tonight, March 2, Alpha Phi Omega is holding a
benefit concert for Relay for Life. Performers include
Charley Winter, Taal Tadka, The Smangers and The
Tides. The night will include a raffle for an iPod shuffle,
giftcards and other alongside the performances. The
show takes place at Under the Couch from 8 to 11 p.m.
Tickets are $5 in advance but $10 at the door.

Ponce Crush Art Stroll
Along Ponce de Leon Avenue this Saturday, March
3, three galleries will be opening their doors for their
monthly public art stroll. Walk between the Beep Beep
Gallery, Young Blood Gallery and Kibbee Gallery and
view works from artists like Mike German, Ed Trask,
Jaynie Crimmins and Grace Kim. Each exhibit has a
different theme and distinctive works. The galleries will
all be open from 7 p.m. through 10 p.m.

Soweto Gospel Choir

Music fans should not miss the Soweto Gospel
Choir’s performance at the culturally prosperous Fox
Theater on Sunday, March 4. Originating in the womb
of Johannesburg, South Africa, choir directors David
Mulovhedzi, Beverly Bryer and their army of vocalists
have overcome a number of cultural barriers in the international stratus of music. Come celebrate the intrinsic vision and talents of the Soweto Gospel Choir that
surpass the constrictive label of “world music.” Tickets
start at $35 and the show starts at 7 p.m.

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Technique • March 2, 2012 • 21

Theme Crossword: Bank On It
By James Barrick
United Features Syndicate
ACROSS

in the second inning, when sophomore Zane Evans and senior
Jake Davies drove back-to-back
doubles to tie the game. The team
scored four runs in the next inning
and another three in the fourth to
put the game out of reach for the
Buckeyes. Sophomores Daniel
Palka and Chase Butler homered
for the Jackets, and Palka, Davies
and sophomore Paul Kronenfield
each had multiple RBIs.
The Jackets could not find similar success on Saturday, dropping
the game by a final of 7-3. Ohio
State took an early 1-0 lead in the
first inning on a solo shot that
was just over the glove of right
fielder Kronenfield. The Buckeyes
then scored another two runs in
the second inning. The first four
Ohio State batters reached base to
bring in a run and load the bases
with nobody out. Then, sophomore pitcher Matt Grimes got the
next batter to ground into a 6-4-3
double play, followed by another
groundout to end the threat.
In the bottom of the third, Evans brought home freshman A.J.
Murray on a single for Tech’s first
run of the game.
Tech continued to dig themselves into holes defensively, facing
three bases-loaded, no-out situations in consecutive innings. The
first time, which occurred in the
second inning, they allowed two
runs. In the next inning, sophomore Alex Cruz came in at pitcher
to relieve Grimes. He struck his
first batter out and got the next to
ground into a double play to get
Tech out of a jam without giving

Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

Buck Farmer on the mound against Ohio State. Farmer opened
the weekend striking out a career-high 13 batters in six innings.
up a run. The third time prompted
Tech to change pitchers as Ohio
State scored another three runs.
Grimes started at pitcher for
the Jackets but did not last long,
being pulled in the third inning
after allowing three runs on three

hits while walking five and striking out one. Tech’s offense sparked
in the sixth and seventh, but these
late runs were not enough to overcome the Buckeyes’ early lead as
Ohio State won the game.
The Jackets’ offense found its

rhythm early in the final game of
the weekend en route to a 13-4
blasting of the Buckeyes. In the
bottom of the first, Davies hit a
three-run homer to score junior
Brandon Thomas and sophomore
Kyle Wren. Then, in the third inning, freshman Connor Lynch
stepped up to the plate with the
bases loaded and blasted a basesclearing double over the left fielder’s head to give Tech a 6-1 lead.
The fifth inning was an explosive one for the Jackets as they
scored six runs and ran two Ohio
State pitchers out of the game.
The first three batters of the inning walked to load the bases
for Palka, who then hit a double
to the left-center gap that scored
two. A wild pitch during the next
at-bat brought Thomas home, and
Davies brought in another run
with a double to right. An error
by the third baseman off a Lynch
grounder scored Davies and Evans
and gave Tech a 13-1 lead.
The Jackets’ pitching on Sunday was much more consistent
than the previous day’s. Sophomore pitcher Dusty Issacs kept
the Buckeyes batters at bay early.
After giving up a leadoff triple and
a run in the first inning, he settled
down and pitched four scoreless
innings before being pulled in
the sixth. Overall, he went 5.2 innings, giving up three earned runs
on five hits while walking three
and striking out three.
Issacs faced a difficult situation
in the fifth, with runners on first
and third and only one out. But he
persevered, getting the next batter
to ground into a double play to
end the inning.

With the game out of reach
in the sixth inning, Tech began
substituting players, bringing in
a pinch hitter for all four batters
that inning. All but three Tech
starters had been replaced by the
end of the game as the Jackets won
by a final score of 13-4.
The Jackets then returned to
action on Wednesday, Feb. 29,
when they hosted Kennesaw State.
The game time was postponed
twice due to expected inclement
weather, but this uncertainty did
not seem to faze the Jackets, who
won the game 11-5. This was the
fourth time in five games that
they scored double-digit runs.
Freshman Cole Pitts got the start
for Tech, going four innings and
giving up no runs on three hits
while striking out five. He only
faced 16 batters, being pulled early after Tech went up 11-0.
Tech scored three runs, all unearned, in the second inning off
of a few errors by the Kennesaw
fielders before blowing the Owls
away in the third. This seven-run
inning saw back-to-back triples by
Wren and Thomas immediately
followed by consecutive doubles
by Palka and Evans. Wren’s triple,
his first of two in the game, came
with the bases loaded and netted
him three RBIs, tying him with
Winn for the most of the day.
Kennesaw did not go down
without a fight, scoring four runs
in the inning after Pitts’ departure. However, they were unable
to maintain the surge and Tech
won the game.
The Jackets return to action
this weekend when they face the
Rutgers Scarlett Knights at home.

Technique • March 2, 2012 • 25

SPORTS

Softball

from page 28

nessee scoring run. The Volunteers scored four times on four hits
during the sixth inning to further
push open their lead over Tech to
7-0.
Tennessee would go on to score
two more runs in the seventh inning to finish off the Jackets 9-0.
Tech would only get four hits
compared to the Volunteers’ 15
hits.
Day two of the NFCA Leadoff
Classic was not much better for
the Jackets. Tech faced Massachusetts in what was a pitcher’s battle
and later competed against Mississippi State, losing 1-0 and 5-3,
respectively. With the losses, the
Jackets dropped to a 0-4 record
on the weekend.
In the first inning against Massachusetts, freshman Kylie Kleinschmidt had a tough start with
two walks, a hit by pitch and a
wild pitch that allowed the Minutemen to score a run. This put
Massachusetts up 1-0, which was
all they needed to finish with the
win.
Kleinschmidt had 6.1 innings
of no hits, which was broken up by
Massachusetts’s Diaz-Patterson’s
single to the left. Kleinschmidt
was strong on the mound with her
first career start, recording nine
strikeouts, the most of any Tech
pitcher this season.
In the second game of the day,
the Mississippi State Bulldogs
were the first to strike in the game.
With the bases loaded in the first
inning, a Mississippi State single
up the middle led to the first run.
Tech senior Caroline Hilton mishandled a ball that allowed a Bulldog to run across home plate for a
2-0 Mississippi State lead.
Tech responded in the bottom of the third inning. Ashley
Thomas hit a single up the middle
and stole second base on the next
pitch. Kuzma hit a single up the
middle that allowed Thomas to
pick up a run for Tech, setting the
score at 2-1.

Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

Hope Rush at bat in a home contest earlier this season. Rush was one of the lone bright spots for
Tech over the skid, shutting out Illinois State pitching, while hitting a double with the bases loaded.
The Bulldogs drove in another two runs to gain a 4-1 lead
in the top of the sixth inning. In
the bottom of the inning, Ashley
Thomas hit another single up the
middle and stole second base. On
a sacrifice bunt by Kuzma, Ashley Thomas moved to third base
and ran across home plate on a
groundout to the shortstop by junior pitcher Hope Rush, putting
the score at 4-2.
Mississippi State got another
run in the top of the seventh inning from a suicide squeeze play,
scoring its fifth run.
To begin the seventh inning,
freshman Katie Johnsky was
walked and moved to second base
after a pitch hit Dike. Johnsky
stole third and scored a run after a throwing error by the Bulldogs’ second baseman, bringing
the score to 5-3. This score would
stand for the game.
Rush gave up five runs, four
earned, on seven hits, while Ashley Thomas was two for three in

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the game, tallying two of Tech’s
three runs.
On the final day of the Classic,
Rudnik’s two for four effort led
the Jackets to a 6-0 shutout victory over the Illinois State Redbirds.
Rudnik’s hits, both doubles, drove
in a couple of runners.
Rush was superb on both
the mound and home plate. She
pitched seven innings, allowing
only two hits and striking out a
season-high six batters. Rush went
one for three at bat with a double
to left field and a walk with the
bases loaded.
At the top of the fifth inning,
the Jackets were the first to score
a run. Johnsky, who was walked,
was replaced on the bases by sophomore Kaitlin Kates. On a sacrifice bunt by Dike, Kates moved to
second base.
Fullem’s single to centerfield
put her on first base and Kates on
third base. Fullem was replaced
on the bases by sophomore Hayley Downs.

Hilton drove a hard ball to second base to allow Kates score the
first Jacket run for a 1-0 Tech lead.
Chelsie Thomas was walked to
load the bases and Ashley Thomas hit a choppy single, allowing
Downs to cross home plate for the
2-0 lead.
In the sixth inning, the Jackets continued their momentum.
Rush hit a strong ball to left center field for a double. Freshman
Caitlin Coffey replaced Rush on
the bases, and moved to third base
on Rudnik’s deep fly ball to right
field.
On a heads up play, Coffey slid
in for Tech’s third run of the game
on a wild pitch by Illinois State’s
pitcher, giving the Jackets a 3-0
advantage.
At the top of the seventh inning, the Tech batters came alive.
Hilton started things off with a
hit on the first pitch of the inning.
Then, Chelsie Thomas and Ashley
Thomas beat out their sacrifice
bunts, which loaded the bases

with no outs.
A walk sent Rush to first base
and brought Hilton in for the
fourth run of the game for the
Jackets. Rudnik hit a deep fly
ball all the way to the right field
fence, allowing Chelsie Thomas
and Ashley Thomas to cross home
plate for the Tech 6-0 victory.
On Wednesday, Feb. 29, the
No. 25th-ranked Jackets then
traveled to Panthersville, Ga. to
face off against the Georgia State
Panthers. A Georgia State homerun in the bottom of the sixth inning gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead
over Tech that eventually won it
for Georgia State.
The Jackets had won the last
ten meetings between the two
teams, giving the Panthers their
first victory over the Jackets since
2008.
In the top of the fifth inning, the Jackets were the first to
score when Ashley Thomas beat
out a single, stole second base
and moved to third base from
a groundout to second base by
Downs. Thomas scored on Rudnick’s straight liner that was mishandled by Georgia State’s shortstop, giving Tech a 1-0 lead.
In the bottom of the fifth inning, Kleinschmidt gave up a
double that led to a run for Georgia State to tie the game 1-1. In the
bottom of the sixth inning, a Panther runner hit a homerun over
the left field wall to give Georgia
State the 2-1 victory.
Kleinschmidt had a no-hitter
for four innings, ultimately allowing two runs on three Georgia
State hits. She had a strikeout in
every inning except for the fifth
inning, amassing seven strikeouts
throughout the game.
The Jackets return to action to
host the Winthrop Eagles this Friday, March 2, in Woodstock, Ga.,
for the Buzz Classic. The Jackets
will also compete against Western Kentucky, Tennessee-Martin,
Southeastern Louisiana and Elon,
playing fives games over three
days.

The men’s basketball team
managed to pull out a narrow victory on Saturday, Feb. 24, against
Maryland that ended with a score
of 63-61. It was only the second
win in Philips Arena for the Jackets and the team’s third conference victory for the season.
With the suspension of junior
guard Glen Rice Jr., the team’s
leading scorer, each of the starters was called to play at least 31
minutes in the game on Saturday.
The Jackets were ready, and redshirt sophomore forward Kammeon Holsey led the team with his
first career double-double with 16
points and 10 rebounds.
Tech started the game off
quickly with two three-pointers
by sophomore guard Jason Morris
in their first two possessions of the
game. Redshirt sophomore center
Daniel Miller added four points
soon afterward, and the Jackets
had their biggest lead of the game,
up 10-2 with 17:43 remaining the
in the first period.
Junior guard Mfon Udofia
notched a career-high nine assists
in the matchup, four of which occurred in the first three minutes of
the game. Holsey scored his initial points on a dunk with 16:47
remaining in the first half, and
senior guard Nick Foreman came
in off the bench and drained backto-back three-pointers to put the
Jackets ahead 18-11.
Maryland quickly began mak-

ing a comeback. Tech held a small
lead until Maryland guard Nick
Faust scored a three-pointer with
3:49 remaining and gave the Terps
a one-point lead. The half ended
with Maryland leading 37-31.
Less than a minute into the
second half, Maryland guard Terrell Stoglin made three free throws
to give the Terps their largest lead
of the game. The Jackets were able
to gain the momentum for the
remainder of the half, tying the
game after a dunk by Miller and
two successful free throws by Holsey with 13:21 left to play.
Maryland was only successful
on two of its 22 shots for the beginning of the second period and
finished with a shooting average
of 23.3 percent for the half. The
Jackets had an even-handed offensive performance with six players scoring at least seven points
throughout the game and led by
six multiple times in the second
half. Maryland regained the lead
when Stoglin, the leading scorer
in the ACC with a 21.1 pointsper-game average, scored on a layup with 2:03 left to play to give
the Terps a 56-55 lead.
A three-point play by Udofia
gave Tech a two-point lead heading into the final, action-packed
30 seconds. A three-pointer from
redshirt sophomore guard Brandon Reed put Tech ahead by five
at 61-56 with 27 seconds left.
Maryland center Alex Len scored
off a dunk and brought the Terps
within three with 18 seconds to
play. Holsey and Reed both went

to the free throw line and hit one
of two attempts, helping to keep
the Jackets in the lead despite a
Stoglin three-pointer with just
three seconds left in the game.
On Wednesday, the Jackets
traveled to Boston College to
take on the Eagles in their second
matchup of the year. A month
ago, Tech had an important 51-47
victory over Boston College, who
came into the game off a fourgame losing streak and tied with
Tech for 11th place in the ACC.
The game started off slowly
with several missed shots for both
teams, and Tech stole the lead
early, taking a 7-5 lead 4:30 into
the game. The Jackets were able
to hang on to a close game until
12:33 left in the period when Boston College broke away and held
the lead for the remainder of the
half.
At the start of the second half,
Tech was behind 33-22. The Jackets were able to close the gap to
five points after a Holsey layup
with 17:40 left to play. The Eagles
had their biggest lead of 17 points
10 minutes into the second period, but an 18-3 run by the Jackets closed the gap to two points.
Holsey had a tip shot with 2:21 to
play, but two free throws by Lonnie Jackson stretched the Boston
College lead to 56-52, and the
Eagles were able to hold on to the
lead the remainder of the game.
The Jackets play their final regular season game Saturday, March
3, against Wake Forest at the Phillips Arena.

Photo by Virginia Lin / Student Publications

Kammeon Holsey attempts a shot over defenders earlier this year.
Holsey had his first career double-double against the Terrapins.

The Men’s Tennis team lost
their conference opener on the
road against Florida State 6-1 this
past Saturday, Feb. 25, dropping
to 5-6 overall and 0-1 in ACC
play for the season.
Despite the lopsided defeat,
Tech got off to a fast start, as senior Kevin King won his singles
match at the No. 1 spot 6-1, 6-2
with little struggle. King and junior Juan Spir also won their doubles match 8-4 in the Jackets’ lone
doubles victory for the day. King
has arguably had the best year of
his career thus far, moving to 14-3
in singles play and 8-4 in doubles
play for the season.
However, these were the only
bright spots for the slumping
Jackets. In doubles play, apart
from King and Spir, the Jackets
could not come up with a victory.
The freshman pair of Eduardo
Segura and Sebastian Lopez lost
8-5 to their opponents Anderson Reed and Dominic Cotrone,
while junioe Juan Melian and
freshman Vikram Hundal lost to
their opponents Andres Bucaro
and Benjamin Lock, 8-6.
In singles play, Florida State’s
Blake Davis quickly defeated Spir
6-1, 6-3, breaking the junior’s
serve five times. This performance
was indicative of Spir’s up-and
-down season, as he is 3-4 at the
No. 2 singles spot.
The day’s drama centered
mainly on the No. 3 and No.
4 singles matches. At the No. 3
spot, Melian found himself in a
hole after losing the set to FSU’s
Christian Gonzalez Mendez 6-4.
However, Melian fought back,
pulling even and seizing the second set 7-5. However, this was as
far as he would get, dropping the
third set tie-breaker 10-2. The loss
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Kevin King preps to hit the ball back in a rally. King has had a
stellar season in singles play, posting a 14-3 record through 2012.
dropped Melian to 6-3 overall in
singles play this season.
In the No. 4 singles match, senior Dusan Miljevic fell behind
after dropping his serve late in the
first set, 7-5. Miljevic would storm
back though, taking the second
set in commanding fashion, winning 6-0. But just like Melian before him, Miljevic could not seal
the deal and lost the deciding set
6-3.
The Jackets’ struggles were not
over for the day. Freshmen Edu-

ardo Segura and Sebastian Lopez
lost their matches 6-1, 7-5 and
6-3, 6-1, respectively to clinch
the team match win for the Seminoles.
The loss dropped the Jackets to
5-6 on the season, below expectations for the team ranked No. 15
in the nation coming into 2012.
The team will look to turn things
around as they take on conference
rival Clemson at home on Sunday, March 4, at Bill Moore Tennis Center.

The Georgia Tech women’s basketball team extended its winning
streak to five games with a pair
of wins over Virginia Tech and
Clemson. The two wins clinched
Tech a first round bye in the ACC
Tournament and extended its
school record for conference wins
in a season to 12.
On Feb. 23, the No. 17 Jackets traveled to Blacksburg, Va. to
take on the Virginia Tech Hokies.
The Jackets won the game 76-66,
but the close final score was not a
good representation of the game.
The Jackets outrebounded the
Hokies 35-24 and shot better
from the field in three-pointers,
free throws and overall field goal
percentage. Georgia Tech’s backups also outscored the Hokies’
backups 26-6.
The Hokies managed to get
within three points of the Jackets
with five minutes to go in the first
half, but the Jackets ended the half
on a 16-3 run. Senior center Sasha
Goodlett sparked the run for the
Jackets with six points during the
five-minute span.
Goodlett finished with teamhighs in points and rebounds with
18 and eight, respectively.
Virginia Tech got within seven
points of the Jackets’ lead with just
over two minutes left in the game,
but six points from senior point
guard Metra Walthour down the
stretch sealed the win.
Walthour finished the game
with 14 points and two assists,
while posting a perfect 7-7 line
from the free throw line.
Following the road win, the
Jackets returned home on Feb. 26
to face Clemson. The Jackets won

their 22nd game of the season
with a 72-50 win over the Tigers.
Instead of their usual home at
the Gwinnett Arena, the Jackets
hosted Clemson at Forbes Arena at
Morehouse College due to Senior
Day. The game proved memorable
for the Georgia Tech seniors as
the win gave them 37 conference
victories and 91 total victories in
their collegiate careers — both of
which are school records.
Midway through the first half,
the Jackets found themselves
down 13-10. The Jackets proceeded to go on a 13-2 run that was
started by a three-pointer from
freshman guard Sydney Wallace.
Wallace also finished the run with
another three, giving Georgia
Tech a 23-15 lead.
Wallace, who started the game
on the bench, finished the game
with a team-high 16 points that
included four three-pointers. Wallace played an important part in
the game as the Jackets’ bench
scored 44 of the team’s 62 points.
After leading by eight at halftime, the Jackets found themselves leading by just five with ten
minutes to go in the game. From
that point, Georgia Tech went on
an 11-0 run that gave the team the
lead for the rest of the game.
Georgia Tech’s five seniors
— Goodlett, Walthour, forward
Laquananisha Adams, forward
Chelsea Regins and guard Mo
Bennett — finished the game
with a combined 18 points and 19
rebounds.
The Jackets’ next game will
be March 2 against either North
Carolina or Clemson in Greensboro, N.C. for the ACC Tournament. The Jackets will most likely
face North Carolina, who enters
the tournament as the fifth seed.

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shorts

Hill impresses
with athleticism at
NFL Combine

Former Tech standout wide receiver Stephen Hill impressed scouts at the NFL combine on Sunday, Feb. 26, after posting a 4.36
in the 40-yard dash. Hill posted the fastest
time of any player in the combine, tying
with two other peer receivers.
As well as his top time, Hill posted an
11’1” broad jump, the best of the combine.
Hill was also a top performer in the vertical jump, posting the fifth-best jump among
wideouts with a 39.5” leap. According to
Tony Pauline and Peter King of Sports Illustrated, Hill dramatically improved his draft
stock and could be taken as early as the beginning of the second round of the draft.

ACC releases Tech’s
schedule for 2012
season

Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

Catcher Zane Evans hits a pitch in a game earlier this season. Evans had a solid outing against the nonconference
opponents, with four hits over 12 at-bat appearances and three RBIs. Evans is hitting at a .321 percentage for the season.
By Joe Sobchuk
Staff Writer

The Jackets opened the season at home with a weekend
series against the Ohio State
Buckeyes on Friday, Feb. 24.
The No. 10 Jackets took two
of three games from the Buckeyes, winning on Friday and
Sunday, 12-4 and 13-4 respectively, but losing on Saturday

7-3.
Starter Buck Farmer struck
out a career-high 13 batters as
the Tech offense put on a show
in game one. Farmer, earning his first win of the season,
gave up three runs on six hits
through six innings, throwing
a total of 105 pitches. He kept
the Ohio State batters guessing
all afternoon, getting ahead in
the count early and forcing

them to swing at anything
near the plate.
Tech found itself trailing
1-0 early after the Buckeyes’
Josh Dezse hit a solo shot in
the second. It was the first of
three home runs in the game
for the first baseman, who finished the day three for four
with three RBIs. But that was
about all the Ohio State offense could muster, as the rest

double to left field and a single up center field, to lead the
Jackets 4-0. DePaul did not
score for the remainder of the
game.
In response, Tech got its
first run in the bottom of the
third inning. After reaching
first base on a DePaul walk,
sophomore Ashley Thomas
moved to second on a stolen
base due to a DePaul error.
Thomas advanced to third
base from a groundout to the
shortstop by senior Kate Kuzma and crossed home plate on
an illegal pitch by the Blue Demons, setting the score to 4-1.
Tech kept the momentum
in the bottom of the fifth,
putting up another run when
freshman Chelsie Thomas got
on first base on a walk, stole
second base from a bunt by
sophomore Hayley Downs
and went to home plate on a
chopper to first base by Ashley
Thomas. This was the last time
that Tech scored, ending with
a 4-2 loss to DePaul.

Later that day, the Jackets
faced No. 9 Tennessee in the
second game of their doubleheader. Off of a couple of bunt
hits, the Volunteers were the
first to strike in the top of the
third inning. With two runners on base, a sacrifice bunt
allowed each of the runners
to advance one base, allowing
Tennessee to gain a 1-0 advantage. A hit to the left field that
got by Ashley Thomas allowed
another Volunteer to score and
give Tennessee a 2-0 advantage.
In the fifth inning, the
Volunteers added to their lead
when a batter sent a shot out to
centerfield. After a Tech pitching change, freshman Karly
Fullem went to the mound for
the first time this year.
Fullem began with a walk,
but made solid pitches afterwards; however, a few illegal
pitches led to a single out into
left field, which began a Ten-

of the team was three for 29.
Meanwhile, the Jackets
found success throughout the
lineup. Five Tech players had
a multi-hit game, and the offense as a whole scored twelve
runs on fifteen hits. The unit
also went eight for 15 with
runners in scoring position.
The Jackets began to click
See Baseball, page 24

On Monday, Feb. 27, the ACC released
the conference’s 2012 football schedule.
The Jackets will kick off the season with a
primetime Monday night game against the
Virginia Tech Hokies on Labor Day.
After a Sept. 8 date against FCS opponent Presbyterian, the Jackets will face two
more conference opponents at home in Virginia and Miami before a fourth straight
home date against Middle Tennessee State.
The Jackets then travel to Clemson, S.C. to
face the rival Clemson Tigers on Oct. 6.
After an open date on Oct. 13, the Jackets
have two more home dates against Boston
College and BYU before hitting the road to
face Maryland and North Carolina.
The Jackets will have their final home
game on Nov. 17 against the Duke Blue
Devils before closing out the regular season on Nov. 24 in Athens, Ga., against rival
Georgia.

Softball struggles, drops five of six nonconference games
By Danielle Sharpe
Contributing Writer

The 17th-ranked Tech
softball team competed in
the NFCA Leadoff Classic
in Clearwater, Fla. this past
weekend. On the first days of
the classic, the Jackets dropped
two games to DePaul and No.
9 Tennessee. Tech lost to the
DePaul Blue Demons in a 4-2
game. Later that day, the 9thranked Volunteers handed the
Jackets a 9-0 loss for their first
shutout of the season.
In the first two innings of
the first game, there was minimal action from both teams
apart from a first-inning error
by the Jackets. In the third inning, the Blue Demons were
the first to get a run.
DePaul’s Ciezki sent a line
drive straight to senior Danielle Dike, who mishandled the
ball allowing Ciezki to get to
first base. Taking advantage
of the error, the Blue Demons
batted a single to right field, a

See Softball, page 25

Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

Shannon Bear slides to avoid getting out in a game earlier this season. Bear
did not post a hit through the six game stretch as Tech lost five matchups.